The National Museum opens for free today May 18

It is on the occasion of the world day of museums which is celebrated together with the international community, Monday, May 18 in Cameroon. Several events will mark this day in Cameroon.

Every year since 1977, the International Museum day is celebrated May 18, worldwide. This day is an opportunity to raise public awareness to the challenges of the museums in the development of the society.

In Cameroon, this 2015 edition will be celebrated under the theme "Museum and sustainable society”. According to Diane Legba, Coordinator and provisional administrator of the national Museum of Cameroon in Yaoundé, they will have to show that through cultural diversity found throughout the various exhibitions in the national museum, the Museum also consolidates the whole nation".

Monday, May 18, the fences of the Museum will be open from morning. "You come in the morning at 9 o'clock and we brief you," said Ms. Legba who, incidentally, gave some practical guidelines to potential visitors: «it is forbidden to shoot indoors. You can have a souvenir photo outdoors. It is a non-smoking area and personal items, including cell phones, are left to the setpoint, and recovered after the visit".

Spread on 5000 m2 and with more than 30 meticulously equipped rooms, the building, symbolic place, is a true compendium of the history of the country.

Among the venues that those who will make the trip will be able to visit, are the emblems room which includes the arms, the national flag with literary and musical anthem versions, the photographic catalogue of the last 50 years in Cameroon and also the polyptych, a giant canvas by the school Poto Poto of Congo Brazzaville, the space reserved for musical instruments and one dedicated to the traditional masks. Just like the exhibition of clothing and historic costumes of the ten regions, habitat heritage.

Closed since 2009, January 20, 2015 the Cameroon national museum reopened to the public after major rehabilitation works.