The Manhyia Palace Museum is a historical African Art museum located in Kumasi, Ashanti, Ghana and situated within the Manhyia Palace. It was built in 1925 for Asantehene Agyeman Prempeh I, by the British Colonial Government, as his private residence when he returned from Seychelles after twenty-eight years in exile (almost three decades of exile). The African Art Museum currently provides fair insight into the culture of Ashantiland and Ghana’s cultural legacy from before its colonization by Great Britain.

It primarily serves „to commemorate (the Ashanti people’s) own kings, queens and leaders and to communicate the riches of their history and culture to future generations“ and generally features video presentations and key historical items pertaining to Ashantiland and Ghana’s ancestry. The museum was rehabilitated and reopened on August 12, 1995 by Otumfuo Opoku Ware II (the 15th King) as part of his Silver Jubilee celebration.

The African Art Museum is unique in West Africa for it has been created by the Asante Nation, to commemorate their own leaders, and to communicate the riches of their history and culture to future generations and to the ever-increasing numbers of visitors who come to Ghana every year from all over the world.

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