Repositories

  • Contact Information

    • Name:

      National Museum, Ondo State

    • Postal Address:

      P.M.B. 664
      Akure
      Nigeria

    • Location:

      Palace Road

    • Telephone:

      234-034-240653

    • E-mail:

      musenationaleakure@yahoo.com

    • Director:

      Mr. Francis Anene

    • Year founded:

      1987

  • Collections

    • Type of repository:

      Museum

    • Types of source material:

      Artifacts
      Oral histories

    • Size:

      About 40 in all

    • Holdings:

      This is a museum that is very much in its infancy with just about forty objects in its collection, found mainly in the storage room which has a capacity to accommodate about a hundred and more objects given the funds for expanded collection.

    • Receiving new material?

      No

    • Languages:

      Yoruba

  • Access Conditions

    • Access conditions:

      Accessible to all on payment of gate fees of k50 Adult k20 children

    • Finding tools:

      Accession lists or registers
      Card catalogs
      Inventories

    • Copier available?:

      No

  • Repository publications:

    • Z.R. Dmochowski, etc. Introduction to Nigerian Traditional Architecture, vols I-III.
    • National Committee for Museums & Monuments. Nigerian Heritage.
    • W.Fagg. Nigerian wages.
    • B.Fagg. Nok Terra-cotta.
    • Ekpo Eyo. Two thousand years of Nigerian Art.
    • A. K. Fatunsin. Yoruba pottery.