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Manhyia
Palace, the residence of the Kings of Ashanti since 1924,
is also nearby. The palace complex consists of the old palace,
the new palace (1970), the King's courts, the Queen Mother's
Palace, Secretariats and an Institute of Ashanti Studies.
It is open throughout the week and can be toured with the
permission of the Public Relations Officer. Once every six
weeks, there is Adae"" festival at the Palace when
the King turns out in all his golden regalia.
It
is a two storey building, with open verandahs and eight rooms
are open to visitors. This Royal Museum houses drums and palanquins
which are over hundred years old. There are also the effigies
of the late Otumfuo Osei Agyeman Prempeh I, Otumfuo Osei Agyeman
Prempeh II, Otumfuo Opoku Ware II and the present Monarch
Otumfuo Osei Tutu II. Also at the Museum is the effigy of
Nana Yaa Asantewaa, the warrior queen-mother of Ejisu and
some guns used during her war in 1900. In 2004, the Canadian
Museum of Civilization repatriated some artifacts taken away
during the Yaa Asantewaa War of 1900, a war drum and a royal
stool taken from the Palace of the queen-mother of Adansi.
The
Manhyia Palace Museum was established in 1995, to mark the
Silver Jubilee of the accession to the Golden Stool by the
late King of the Asante Kingdom, Otumfuo Opoku Ware II.
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