Located
on Barnes Road, this fine museum houses a fascinating collection
of Ghana’s historical treasures. The exhibits housed
under the two-tiered rotounda of the museum comprise much
more than Ghanaian Culture alone, and include a collection
of the neighbouring West African countries as well as an archaeological
department located in a hall ont he first floor.
On
of the museum's ground-floor wings is devoted to temporary
exhibitions which can range from contemporary dyed fabrics
to traditional and eve sacred artifacts such as the celebrated
Ashanti ancestor stools.
Other
interesting exhibits in the ground-floor rooms include richly
decorated Asahnti gold-weighted scales adorned with finely-rendered
symbolic images illustrative of traditional proverbs.
The
walls of these exhibition hassls are lined with examples of
traditional Ghanaian garments known as Kente, each of whose
symbolic woven desins has its own special meaning, and certain
of which are reserved for chiefs or dignitaries |
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