National Museum of Ghana

The National Museum is a museum in Ghana, which is located in Accra, the capital of the country in the Barnes Road in the center of the city.

Location

The National Museum of Ghana is located in close proximity to the Ghana National Museum of Science and Technology, Ghana's Museum of Science and Technology. The museum is housed in a two storey building and is also frequented its tourist regular school classes.

History

The National Museum of Ghana is the oldest and largest of six museums, are under the administration of the Board of Museums and Monuments in Ghana (Ghana Museums and Monuments Board). On March 6, 1957, as part of the celebrations for the independence of Ghana from the UK, with the participation of the Duchess of Kent, who later became Princess Marina opened. The University of Ghana, Legon, now a district of Accra was instrumental in the opening.

Exhibitions

Permanent exhibition

The permanent exhibition includes archaeological finds such as prehistoric exhibits, but also extensive documentation in precolonial history and culture as well as the colonial period and recent exhibits.

Especially impressive is the exhibition of the Ashanti gold weights, which are here in many individual pieces, the range of variation of the old cradle and payment practices in the Ashanti kingdom. Just this ornate gold miniature sculptures are very popular and rarely seen on such a scale as the National Museum of Ghana among collectors.

In addition to the gold weights, there are also traditional instruments and wooden chairs of the Chiefs, so the tribal chiefs. Even traditional Kentestoffe and old pottery will be exhibited and explained their meaning in English. Through agreements with other African countries, some Museums exhibits from neighboring countries of Ghana and other African countries can be seen.

A few pictures of the current artists are also on display.

In essence, the exhibits come from the property or former property of administrative officials of the colonial period or were provided by traditional rulers and archaeologists available.

Changing exhibitions

By January 2006, the Peace Corps Ghana Visual Arts Exhibition at the National Museum in Accra to see on the topic Arts, Lovinf Life. The exhibition covered the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome AIDS.

As of November 2007, the traveling exhibition chunk memory is ( history and expropriation of cultural objects reflected in contemporary art ) in the National Museum is shown after it was opened in September 2007 in Bamako in the Musée National du Mali. As of January 2008, the exhibition at the Musée d' Art Africain in Dakar, Senegal will be shown. The exhibition will then come to Europe.

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