The Museum of Black Civilisations

One of the highlights of my time in Dakar. The Museum of Black Civilizations celebrates African heritage with world-class curation and architecture. Galleries move from early civilizations and spiritual traditions to music, textiles, and modern art, connecting Africa with its global diaspora. Displays are engaging and bilingual (French/English). The building is stunning and accessible, and the team is welcoming. Great for families, students, and visitors. Don’t miss it.

hilarious! The Chinese gave them this building and they literally put up an exhibit of tires and trash. I guess art does imitate life. Before the Europeans came to Africa, there was no written language in most of the continent so they’ve don’t have any history to put on display. Instead, they’ve just culturally appropriated Egyptian history and put up billboards around the first floor of the museum on the Egyptians instead. Most of the museum is empty.

Very informative! I enjoyed the available exhibits. I will need to return when they complete renovations! The innovation of Africa is unmatched, of all the museums I've been to this will be my favorite!

This impressive modernist building houses a relatively small but very fine collection of African artifacts that clearly steps you through a timeline of African history. The layout is conducive to quiet contemplation of Africa’s vast, rich history. Worth a couple of hours to see both ancient and contemporary art and artifacts.

Great museum with really nice exhibitions on the origin of man, Egyptian influence on the continent and African influence on Europe. Ticket is around €4,50

A must in your "to visit list" in Senegal 🇸🇳. Interesting place where you can have a very good knowledge of the past (and somewhat present) African civilisations, their history, their achievements, contributions, architectures, discoveries, cultures and customs, etc. Also differents findings of the skeletons of past civilisations are exposed as well as the art cratfs from different African countries. Paid entry (at entrance) of CFA 3000 for adults and CFA 500 for children (residents and non residents). Free parking available or very easily accessible by taxi. There is a staff who will give you a virtual of the museum as soon as you enter, however, you can hire a guide ONLY if you come in large groups. I dont think someone, especially tourists, will mind paying a guide in order to have a better explanation and enhance his first visit (though there are much details on the posters exposed). It is closed on Mondays and public holidays and open the rest of the week from 10am to 7pm.

It was very interesting it’s quite big so there’s a lot to see I would recommend it everyone saw a lot!!

Very disappointed in this museum, to be honest. It’s probably the worst museum I’ve ever visited. The museography is chaotic and poorly designed — you never really know where to go. Despite the museum being large, it feels strangely empty. The ground floor, in particular, looks more like a high school science fair than a proper exhibition. Definitely not recommended.