Description of the attraction
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; examples 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 the 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 view the exhibition on their own or to book a guided tour. The gift shop located here also offers a wide variety of traditional Ghanaian handicrafts.
Description added:
Elena 14.08.2016
On the market are textiles, leather products (bags, wallets, slippers), souvenirs (ritual masks, drums, soapstone products, magnets and much more).
