National Museum of Togo

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The Palais des Congrès in Lomé

The National Museum of Togo ( French Musée national du Togo ) is located in the Palais des Congrès ('Congress Palace '), the seat of the National Assembly , in the capital Lomé . The museum was first founded in 1950 and then re-established in 1975 after the historian Hubert Kponton bequeathed his collection to the museum. It presents exhibitions on ethnography , history and art .

The idea of ​​establishing a national museum goes back to the governor of the German colony of Togo , Count von Zech (1904–1911), who had already included such a museum in his 1906 Togo program.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ On the person, cf. Gerhard Kubik : Hubert Kponton (1905-1982), inventor, artist and founder of a private ethnographic museum in Lomé, Togo , Archiv für Völkerkunde , 1986, vol. 40, pp. 157-171.
  2. ^ Nation encyclopedia
  3. ^ BN Lawrance, p. 281

literature

  • Benjamin Nicholas Lawrance: A Handbook of Eweland: The Ewe of Togo and Benin. Woeli Publishing Services, 2005 ( partial online view )

Coordinates: 6 ° 7 '49.7 "  N , 1 ° 13' 2.9"  E