National Museum of Ghana description and photos - Ghana: Accra (Topic)

National Museum of Ghana description and photos - Ghana: Accra. Detailed information about the attraction. Description, photographs and a map showing the nearest significant objects. The title in English is National Museum of Ghana.

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The National Museum of Ghana, located in a house on Barnes Road in downtown Accra, opened on March 5, 1957. The complex consists of three thematic galleries: The Past of Ghana; "Traditions"; "Artistic Culture of the Country". In the galleries, respectively, exhibits from Africa of the most ancient period are presented; sculptures and canvases by famous masters of the past and present; samples of traditional clothing, local musical instruments, and sacred tribal artifacts such as the Ashanti ancestral chairs.

Also at the exhibition you can see the regalia of the leaders; Ghanaian national musical instruments; scales for gold; beads; traditional textiles, stools and pottery; paraphernalia for ritual dances, agricultural tools and devices for the production of cast iron. Sad testimonies and items accompanying the slave trade; senfu masks. The exhibition of wooden Zulu figurines from South Africa is very diverse; there are ancient bronze heads from Nigeria and Bushongo; carvings from Congo.

The museum also has a Sculpture Garden, which includes life-size statues of historical figures such as Kwame Nkrumah, the first president of Ghana.

The museum offers visitors the opportunity to independently view the exhibition or book a tour. The souvenir shop located here also offers a wide variety of traditional Ghanaian handicrafts.

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