The refurbished National Museum Gallery in Accra has bounced back since its reopening last June, with 14,145 visitors trooping to the facility between June 10 and July 31, 2022.
Until now, the facility, which had not seen any major refurbishment since it was first opened in 1957 to commemorate
Ghana’s Independence Day, hardly attracted visitors, with the managers saying “it was nothing to write home about,” when asked about the figures for attendance in the past.
The gallery, located on the premises of the Ghana Museums and Monuments Board in Adabraka, Accra, was closed down for refurbishment in December 2015, but work stalled along the line, and only resumed this year after the government committed to complete it as part of efforts to promote tourism in the country.
Since the facelift, the gallery has been enjoying patronage especially on Fridays, where patrons, including domestic and foreign tourists, researchers, educationists, students, tour guides and families visit to explore and experience art, creativity, and the shared humanity the gallery has to offer.
Among the items on display are objects of archaeology, fine arts, as well as ethnography; the scientific description of peoples and cultures with their customs, habits and mutual differences.
Visit
The Daily Graphic has also visited the museum to observe how it is being patronised.
Apart from the gallery and other exhibition areas, there are visitor-friendly facilities sited within the premises of the gallery such as washrooms and a restaurant which serves a variety of continental and local dishes at a fee.
For two Fridays that the team visited the museum, it observed how the museum has become, buzzing with activities as staff of the Ghana Museums and Monuments Board (GMMB) were busily seen welcoming visitors to the gallery.
On one of the days, two Metro Mass Transit buses with more than 120 schoolchildren on an educational tour arrived on an excursion.
Tour, fee
A typical tour by a visitor which lasts between 45 minutes and two hours, starts with the museum educator welcoming his or her guest to the facility.
If the visitors are schoolchildren, they are put in groups of 20 before the tour starts.
The visitor is directed to the front desk of the gallery where a cashier and an official from the education department of the GMMB take records of visitors.
Source: graphic.com.gh
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