Virtual Library Museums World museums

M u s e u m s
in Africa

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This page includes a collection of on-line museums and other World Wide Web services connected with museums in Africa.

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Algeria, Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde
Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo, Cote d'Ivoire, Djibouti, Egypt
Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau
Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali
Mauritania, Mauritius, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda
Sao Tome & Principe, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa
Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, Zaire, Zambia, Zimbabwe

The museums in this list are given in alphabetical order.

Items starting with have been recently added. Starred items marked have large collections and/or are especially recommended. If enough people ask for a star to be added to an item I will do so!

Egypt

• Coptic Museum, Cairo.
• Egyptian Museum, Cairo.
• Museums located in Egypt and with Egyptian collections from CultureNet.
• Museums by location from ArabNet.

Kenya

• National Museums of Kenya. See galleries. Mammals, space, birds, geology, fish, reptiles, ethnography, art, prehistory, etc.
• Regional museums.

Morocco

• Morocco museums.
• Country map.

Namibia

• National Museum of Namibia, Windhoek. National heritage.
• African museums.

South Africa

• Albany Museum, Grahamstown. Includes the Natural Sciences Museum, History Museum, Observatory Museum, Fort Selwyn, Old Provost military prison, and Drostdy Arch.
• Durban Art Gallery.
• Johannesburg Art Gallery. Emphasis on South African art.
• MuseumAfrica, Johannesburg. South African history.
• National Cultural History Museum, Sunnyside, Pretoria. Includes a list of satellite museums in and around Pretoria.
• Robben Island Museum. The prison island where Nelson Mandela was held, now a National Monument and National Museum.
• South African National Gallery, Cape Town.
• Transvaal Museum, Pretoria. Natural history collections of southern African fauna.
• University of the Witwatersrand Museums, Johannesburg.
• South African museums.
• Museums by type from the South African Museums Association (SAMA).
• Cape Town museums.
• Pretoria Art Museum or Pretoria Art Museum

This service is brought to you by National Museums of Kenya as part of the WWW Virtual Library museums pages maintained by Jonathan Bowen.