Sukuma Cultural Mwanza

Sukuma Museums Mwanza, Founded in 1968, the Sukuma Museum is a clear contrast to the colonial models used for many museums on the continent, including the National Museum in Dar es Salaam.  It was designed not simply to present cultural artifacts as curiosities for the tourist, but to preserve the heritage of and for a people.  Each time we’ve visited the campus, the crowds of school children have far outnumbered the foreigners—good for the mission, though not necessarily for the bottom line.

The museum buildings—unlike the collections, the crafts and the arts practiced there—are a

Sukuma Cultural Mwanza

hybrid of tradition and contemporary construction.  Walls are concrete block, painted white with bright decorations, and roofs are thatch reinforced with site-fabricated, curved steel trusses made of reinforcing bars. The black triangles or openings found throughout the wall patterning  “represent the hoe, a symbol of life, death and the cycle of life in Sukuma tradition,” according to Father Alex Mugonya in an article by Aimee Bessire, and “the red, black and blue color triad represents the life of the people of the Lake Victoria region, with red as life and fire, black as the people, and blue signifying water.”  The result is also attuned to the Art Deco of the British Colonial period and the Modernism associated with the decades following independence in the 1960’sWhether you’re looking for things traveller information to make your  visit run smoothly or are planning where to go, you’ll find everything you need in Our Website https://manyaratravel.com Manyara Travel Club and Climbing , We have Lake Manyara National parks, Tarangire, Ngorongoro crater, Serengeti national park, Mikumi National parks and Climbing Mount Kilimanjaro, Mount Meru, Mount Oldonyo Lengai, Mount Usambara and Others tour in Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda  and South Africa. Manyara Travel Club and Climbing, we are sure you to make your holidays unforgettable. We  will organize  for  you  please  book  through us  Whatsaap +255676668468 /  Line +255742806279 info@manyaratravel.com