Place
Sierra Leone National Museum
Culture / history
Freetown, Western Area, Sierra Leone
At the centre of Freetown, the Sierra Leone National Museum brings the country’s material culture and history into one focused collection.
Why go
Why visit this place?
Its setting beside the former Cotton Tree makes it a natural beginning for understanding how national memory, Krio history and the changing city meet.
Visiting
Getting there
Use the current institution entrance and confirm opening, photography and nearby memorial-site works.
Planning your visit
How to get there
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Continue from Sierra Leone National Museum
This Place can also become the starting point for another discovery.
Capital to Rainforest Country
Travel from Freetown through Bo to Kenema as a daylight road journey between genuine bases, then enter Gola only through its managed visitor system.
Continue with this Journey →Freetown Museums and Waterfront History
Begin at the National Museum, move through the changing waterfront memory landscape and continue to the Railway Museum at Cline Town.
Continue with this Journey →Freetown Peninsula Landscape and Conservation
Climb from Freetown to Leicester Peak, then continue toward Tacugama for a scheduled conservation tour.
Continue with this Journey →River Number Two Community Coast
Follow the Peninsula road south from Freetown to River Number Two, where community stewardship is part of the destination.
Continue with this Journey →Where is it—and how do you reach it?
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