President Akufo-Addo Re-opens Renovated National Museum

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo on Friday, 10th June 2022, re-opened the renovated National Museum in Accra.

As the oldest and largest museum in Ghana, the National Museum, which was opened in 1957, had to be closed to the public in 2015 for lack of maintenance.

The Museum has been fully rehabilitated, and restored to its original state with the inclusion of additional exhibits and artefacts. Its inner roads have also been asphalted, the first time ever since its establishment.

In seeking to enrich the experience of visitors to the Museum, the curators of the National Museum have also added seven of the vehicles used by former Heads of State, including three E-450 Mercedes Benz vehicles, two Nissan Patrols, a limousine and a Toyota Land Cruiser.

President Akufo-Addo said the efforts put in to restore the Museum are part of a comprehensive vision of his government to help create a more vibrant cultural industry sector.

Tourism, arts and culture, he said are effective tools for economic transformation and “we in Ghana can benefit from this because we possess a significant number of heritage resource.”