Museum of Archaeology | University of Ghana

The Museum of Archaeology is a teaching museum located in the Department of Archaeology and Heritage Studies at the University of Ghana, Legon. The museum has its beginnings at Achimota College, an experimental educational institution that was opened in 1924 at Achimota, near Accra. At the dawn of Ghana’s independence in 1957, the government inaugurated the Ghana National Museum Collection at Accra and a substantial portion of the Achimota College Museum Collection at Legon was transferred to the National Museum. The Museum of Archaeology has come a long way in the history of museums in Ghana and the study of archaeology as a discipline. It is opened to archaeology students, the university community, educational institutions of different levels and the public. The museum is a repository of past and present excavated materials, surface finds and ethnographic materials from different parts of the nation. As a result, the archaeological objects, the core of the museum’s collections, which reflect the cultural lifeways of Ghanaians is a good source of educative materials in narrating the history of the nation. Whether the past of a people is great or humble, no nation can feel truly self-confident or self-conscious if it is uncertain about its past.