The Volta Regional Museum is a

museum A museum ( ; plural museums or, rarely, musea) is a building or institution that cares for and displays a collection of artifacts and other objects of artistic, cultural, historical, or scientific importance. Many public museums make these ...

Ho, Ghana Ho is the capital city of the Ho Municipal District and the Volta Region of Ghana. The city lies between Mount Adaklu and Mount Galenukui or Togo Atakora Range, and is home to the Volta Regional Museum, a cathedral, and a prison.Ghana Museums and Monuments Board The Ghana Museums and Monuments Board (GMMB) is the legal organisation responsible for the historic preservation , preservation of Ghana , Ghana's material cultural heritage. It was founded on 5 March 1957, soon after Ghana became independent, b ...

History

Before it was used as a

, the building served as the Office of the Regional House of Chiefs. The building was sold to the government in 1967 and the

was opened in 1973. In April 2014, the museum collaborated with

Evangelical Presbyterian University College The Evangelical Presbyterian University College was established in 2008 by the Evangelical Presbyterian Church, Ghana. Campuses There are two campuses. The first is the Central Municipal Campus located at Ho, capital of the Volta Region of Ghan ...

to hold the first memorial lecture to pay tribute to several contributors who have dedicated themselves to the study of the

Ewe language Ewe (''Eʋe'' or ''Eʋegbe'' ) is a language spoken by approximately 20 million people in West Africa, mainly in Ghana, Togo and Benin, and also in some other countries like Liberia and southwestern Nigeria. Ewe is part of a cluster of related ...

, these contributors were Ghanaian doctors, Godfried Kportufe Agamah and Emmanuel Ablo, in addition to Professor Komla Amoaku, and the lecture also paid tribute to German Reverend Jakob Spieth. In 2018, Germany's ambassador to Ghana, Christoph Retzlaff, visited the museum and spoke about plans to rehabilitate sites in the Volta region. In 2021 renovations were completed to the museum which was partly financed by the German government who gave 25000 euros and Ghana Museums and Monuments Board who contributed 200000

Ghanaian cedi The cedi ( ) (currency sign: GH₵; currency code: GHS) is the unit of currency of Ghana. It is the fourth historical and only current legal tender in the Republic of Ghana. One cedi is divided into one hundred pesewas (Gp). After independenc ...

. The museum renovations lasted 3 years. On September 4, 2021, an event on tourism development in the region was organized by Tourism Aid Ghana at the museum.

Collections

Exhibits on display at the

include the Chair of State of the last German colonial governor, woodcraft, pottery, Kente textiles, masks and Asante shrines. The museum contains exhibits on ethnography of the Volta Region as well as collections of handicrafts and contemporary art. The museum also has exhibits from when the region was part of

German Togoland Togoland was a German Empire protectorate in West Africa from 1884 to 1914, encompassing what is now the nation of Togo and most of what is now the Volta Region of Ghana, approximately 90,400 km2 (29,867 sq mi) in size. During the period kno ...

, as well as artifacts from when the British colonized the region and local culture. The museum has several collections of cultural artifacts including swords, stone relics, musical instruments such as drums, maps of the Ewe State, stools and earthenware cooking vessels. In addition, the museum contains paintings and sculptures by artists from the Volta region.

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* Museums established in 1973 Museums in Ghana Volta Region 1973 establishments in Ghana {{Ghana-museum-stub