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3 unusual facts about National Museum of Ghana


A. W. Lawrence

In 1951 he resigned his post at Cambridge to become the Professor of Archaeology at the University College of the Gold Coast where he established the National Museum and was the Secretary and Conservator of the Monuments and Relics Committee.

He was Laurence Professor of Classical Archaeology at Cambridge University in the 1940s, and in the early 1950s in Accra he founded what later became the Ghana Museums and Monuments Board as well as the National Museum of Ghana.

Robert Graeme Galbraith

He lived with the people and as well as exploring the country he did some voluntary work for the art gallery at the National Museum of Ghana in Accra, and some part-time teaching at one of the state primary schools.



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