The Ghana Museums and Monuments Board (GMMB) is the legal organisation responsible for the preservation of Ghana's material

cultural heritage Cultural heritage is the heritage of tangible and intangible heritage assets of a group or society that is inherited from past generations. Not all heritages of past generations are "heritage"; rather, heritage is a product of selection by soci ...

. It was founded on 5 March 1957, soon after

Ghana Ghana (; tw, Gaana, ee, Gana), officially the Republic of Ghana, is a country in West Africa. It abuts the Gulf of Guinea and the Atlantic Ocean to the south, sharing borders with Ivory Coast in the west, Burkina Faso in the north, and To ...

became independent, by a merge of the

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and the Monuments and Relics Commission by Ordinance 20.

History

The origins of the GMMB can be traced back to the establishment of an ethnographic museum at

Achimota College Achimota School ( /ɑːtʃimoʊtɑː/ ), formerly Prince of Wales College and School at Achimota, later Achimota College, now nicknamed Motown, is a co-educational boarding school located at Achimota in Accra, Greater Accra, Ghana. The schoo ...

(now the Achimota School) in 1929. Following the establishment of the

University of Ghana The University of Ghana is a public university located in Accra, Ghana. It the oldest and largest of the thirteen Ghanaian national public universities. The university was founded in 1948 as the University College of the Gold Coast in the Br ...

(then known as the University of the Gold Coast) in 1948, the museum was transferred to the university's archaeology department. In 1952, the British colonial government established an "Interim Council of the National Museum of the Gold Coast". The council later merged with the Monuments and Relics Commission to create the modern GMMB.

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* 1957 establishments in Ghana Heritage registers in Ghana {{Ghana-stub