Esie Museum, Kwara.

Esie, Kwara

Esie Museum Description

About Esię Museum

Esię Museum was built in 1945 to preserve the beautiful stone images of Esie. It is notable as the home of beautiful soap stone images. It was built by Colonial masters.

Did you know that the Esię museum was the first museum in Nigeria? Built in 1945, the museum once housed a thousand tombstone images representing human beings and is famed to have the largest collection of soapstone images in the world.

Security/Safety of Esię Museum

This is a very safe location.

  • don't leave your belongings unattended to.

What To Bring

  • Camera phone
  • Face cap or hat

Things to do while at Esię Museum

  • Take pictures of the art works

Best Features

The history it contains.

Most common visitors

Curators, Archaeologists,Historians.

  • These soap works are almost life like!- My reaction when i got to the museum.

Sightseeing

Relaxation

Learn

Explore art

Meet friends

Address

Esie, Kwara

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