Musée National

Conakry


The Musée National has a modest collection of masks, statues and musical instruments, many of which are used in religious or mystical ceremonies.

In the museum courtyard is a rather bizarre monument to Noël Ballay, a French auxiliary doctor and the first governor of French Guinea. The statue shows a grandly dressed Ballay with his arm around a young naked African boy.


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