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The new face of Lamu Museum

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English: Lamu Museum was established in the 1960s, constitutes one of the largest and most authentic Swahili ethnographic collection on the East Africa coast assembled from numerous researchers and enthusiastic from the early 1900s. The artefact represent different facets of Swahili culture heritage and include items of textile, jewellery, wood curving arts, musical instruments maritime, archaeological and dhow exhibition.

The Lamu Museum was reopened after the renovation process by Hon. Peninah Malonza, the Cabinate secretary of Tourism, Wildlife and Heritage in cooperation between the Kenyan and Omani sides on the 10th February,2023. The Lamu Museum now holds Lamu and Oman exhibitions. The aim of the partnership is to show the Oman present in the East Africa including Lamu. Some historians stated that the actual beginning of the Omani present is traced back to about two thousand years. it was also confirmed that the Oman sailors in that era played a vital role in the maritime trade across the Indian ocean. They transport spices from the coast. The Archaeological findings approved that the navigator of Oman had sovereignty over the Indian ocean since the third millennium BC. The Museum is now holds Swahili Social Life, Mauld in Lamu,Jewelry,Swahili attires, Maritime Life, Swahili Wedding and Archeology exhibition that is tag in three languages, Kiswahili, English and Oman Arab Language.

The Oman exhibition in Lamu Museum consist of exhibition of Oman through the ages, Oman maritime Heritage( Human and the Sea),People and community, Sultans of Al-Busaidi Dynasty in the East Africa, Sultan Qaboos Bin Said, Modern Oman and the omani presence in East Africa.
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Camera location2° 16′ 03.86″ S, 40° 54′ 08.63″ E Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

Contribution by Ms. Khadija Issa Twahir Librarian Lamu Fort Museum

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