Organization:National Museum of Gitega

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Short description: national museum in Gitega Province, Burundi
National Museum of Gitega
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The exterior of the museum, pictured in 2013
Established1955 (1955)
LocationPlace de la Révolution 223
Gitega, Gitega Province, Burundi
Coordinates [ ⚑ ] : 3°25′06″S 29°54′31″E / 3.418236°S 29.908485°E / -3.418236; 29.908485
Typenational museum

The National Museum of Gitega (French: Musée National de Gitega, Kirundi: Iratiro ry'akaranga k'Uburundi) is the national museum of Burundi. It is located in Gitega and was founded under Belgian colonial rule in 1955.[1] The museum is the largest of Burundi's public museums although its collection is displayed in a single room.[2] In 2014 it averaged 20–50 visitors per week.[3]

Founded in 1955, the museum was intended to preserve artefacts from Burundian folk culture which were declining as a result of modernisation and social change. Its collection includes ethnographic and historical objects originating in the country, including artefacts from the court of the Burundian monarchs.[3] The lack of funds has meant that the museum has made few recent acquisitions.[3]

In 2015, a catalogue of the museum's collection was published with the support of the German Embassy in Burundi entitled Le Patrimoine Burundais: le Musée de Gitega.[4]

References

  1. ↑ Burundi - Libraries and museums( )
  2. ↑ "Musée national de Gitega". Lonely Planet. https://www.lonelyplanet.com/burundi/gitega/attractions/musee-national-de-gitega/a/poi-sig/1503844/1330375. Retrieved 5 January 2017. 
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Irambona, Yvette. "Musée national de Gitega: Etat des lieux". Publication de Presse Burundaise. http://www.ppbdi.com/index.php/extras/sports/448-musee-national-de-gitega-etat-des-lieux. Retrieved 5 January 2017. 
  4. ↑ "Un livre pour immortaliser la richesse du Musée national de Gitega". IWACU: Voix du Burundi. 25 January 2015. http://www.iwacu-burundi.org/un-livre-pour-immortaliser-la-richesse-du-musee-national-de-gitega. Retrieved 5 January 2017. 

Further reading

  • Mapfarakora, Jacques (1992). "Le musée national de Gitega, coopération bilatérale et genèse du musée". Quels musées pour l'Afrique? Patrimoine en devenir: actes des rencontres, Bénin, Ghana, Togo, 18 - 23 novembre 1991. Paris: ICOM. 



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