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]
Referencesedit
^Burundi - Libraries and museums( October 2, 2013, at the Wayback Machine)
^"Musée national de Gitega". Lonely Planet. Retrieved 5 January 2017.
^ abcIrambona, Yvette. "Musée national de Gitega: Etat des lieux". Publication de Presse Burundaise. Retrieved 5 January 2017.
^"Un livre pour immortaliser la richesse du Musée national de Gitega". IWACU: Voix du Burundi. 25 January 2015. Retrieved 5 January 2017.
Further readingedit
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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