Nigerien National Museum

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Nigerien National Museum
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Installation of the Nigerien National Museum (1976)
Data
place Niamey
opening 1959
management
Chaibou Néino

The Nigerien National Museum ( French : Musée National du Niger ) in Niamey is the national museum of the West African country Niger .

history

The museum's first pavilion , initially called the Institut français d'Afrique noire , was completed in 1958. It was named Pavillon classique and was later renamed Boubou-Hama-Pavillon , after the artist and politician Boubou Hama , who supported the construction. The museum was officially opened on December 18, 1959 by Prime Minister Hamani Diori . In the following decades the museum was continuously expanded. In 1980 a fire caused severe damage.

Directors

Plant and collections

Zoo in the Nigerien National Museum (2011)
Pavilion of the Arbre du Ténéré (1985)

The museum is located in the Niamey II arrondissement and covers an area of ​​24 hectares . It has two entrances, one at the Center Culturel Franco-Nigérien and the other at the Hôtel Gaweye.

The center of the facility is made up of seven pavilions dedicated to different topics:

  • The oldest is the Boubou Hama pavilion . It contains an ethnographic collection on the various ethnic groups of Niger.
  • The Pablo Toucet Pavilion opened in 1962. It is named after the French archaeologist Pablo Toucet, who was the director of the museum. Traditional clothing and handicrafts of the Nigerien ethnic groups are exhibited here.
  • The musical instruments pavilion was created in 1969. In addition to traditional musical instruments from the country, the modern music of Niger is also discussed here.
  • The rock carvings pavilion was also built in 1969 for prehistoric and historical rock carvings in the Sahara and the Niger River region .
  • The palaeontology and prehistoric pavilion, built in 1973, houses other palaeontological , prehistoric and protohistoric exhibits and the first dinosaur skeleton found by Philippe Taquet in Niger.
  • The archeology pavilion , built in 1980, was originally intended to be only a temporary facility. Excavations from the Aïr and Ténéré regions can be seen here.
  • The youngest pavilion is the uranium pavilion created in 1985 . It is dedicated to uranium mining in Arlit and Akouta .

One of the most famous exhibits is the Arbre du Ténéré , the remains of which have been in the Nigerien National Museum since 1974. Since 1979 the tree has been housed in its own " mausoleum ". The museum also has a center for handicrafts , a zoo with fifty species of animals and five traditional houses of the Fulbe , Hausa , Songhai , Tuareg and Zarma ethnic groups . The sculptor Issoufou Lankondé created a bust of Boubou Hama and sculptures of giraffes for the museum.

literature

  • Julien Bondaz: Imaginaire national et imaginaire touristique: l'artisanat au Musée national du Niger . In: Cahiers d'etudes africaines . Vol. 49, No. 1–2 / 193–194 , 2009, ISSN  0008-0055 , pp. 365-389 .
  • Abdoulkader Mani Toro: L'état de la faune sauvage du musée Boubou Hama de Niamey . Faculté d'Agronomie, Université Abdou Moumouni de Niamey, Niamey 2016.
  • Mahamane Saley: L'Artisanat nigérien et son musée national à Niamey: de 1959–1983 . Mémoire. Université de Niamey, Niamey 1984.

Web links

Commons : National Museum of Niger  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Jean-Paul Labourdette, Dominique Auzias: Niger 2009 . Nouvelle édition de l'Université, Paris 2009, ISBN 2-7469-1640-1 , pp. 110-111 .
  2. ↑ Jolijn Geels: Niger . Bradt, Chalfont St Peter 2006, ISBN 1-84162-152-8 , p. 108.
  3. ↑ Abdourahmane Idrissa, Samuel Decalo: Historical Dictionary of Niger . 4th edition. Scarecrow, Plymouth 2012, ISBN 978-0-8108-6094-0 , pp. 332 .
  4. ↑ Issoufou Lankondé. In: PlaneteAfrique. July 9, 2011, accessed October 13, 2019 (French).

Coordinates: 13 ° 30 ′ 40.9 "  N , 2 ° 6 ′ 26.3"  E