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The Nigerian National Museum is a national museum of Nigeria, located in the city of Lagos. The museum has a notable collection of Nigerian art, including pieces of statuary, carvings also archaeological and ethnographic exhibits. [ 1 ] Of note is a terracotta human head known as the Jemaa Head (c. 900 to 200 BC), part of the Nok culture.
The National Commission for Museums and Monuments (NCMM), also referred to as National Museum of Nigeria was Founded in 1979 by the Federal Government of Nigeria with decree 77 of 1979 to be in charge of the collection, documentation, conservation and presentation of the National Cultural properties to the public for the purposes of Education, Enlightenment and Entertainment.
The Nsude pyramid shrines are an archaeological site located in Nsude, a village in Southeastern Nigeria in modern-day Enugu. A Nsude pyramid taken by G.I Jones 1935. These pyramid-shaped shrines were constructed by the Igbo people. In the 1930s [1] an anthropologist and colonial administrator in the area, G.I. Jones, photographed them.
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Zuma Rock is a large natural monolith, or inselberg, an igneous intrusion composed of gabbro and granodiorite, located in Madalla, a town in Niger State, Nigeria. [1] It is situated in the west of Nigeria's capital, Abuja, along the main road from Abuja to Kaduna, off Madalla, and is sometimes referred to as the "Gateway to Abuja from Suleja". [2]
Calabar (also referred to as Callabar, Calabari, Calbari, Cali and Kalabar) [3] is the capital city of Cross River State, Nigeria. It was originally named Akwa Akpa, in the Efik language, as the Efik people dominate this area. [4] The city is adjacent to the Calabar and Great Kwa rivers, and the creeks of the Cross River (from its inland delta).
Abuja. Abuja (/ əˈbuːdʒə /) [ 4 ] is the capital city of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, [ 5 ] strategically situated at the geographic midpoint of the country within the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). As the seat of the Federal Government of Nigeria, it hosts key national institutions, landmarks, and buildings spread across its over 50 ...
African Burial Ground National Monument is a monument at Duane Street and African Burial Ground Way (Elk Street) in the Civic Center section of Lower Manhattan, New York City. Its main building is the Ted Weiss Federal Building at 290 Broadway. [4] The site contains the remains of more than 419 Africans buried during the late 17th and 18th ...