AFHEMI stands for African Arts/Handicraft and Environmental Management Institute. The AFHEMI Museum was officially inaugurated by the Ministry of Culture on October 20, 1999. The Museum collection includes over two thousand traditional art objects, artifacts, antiquities and paintings, some of which are more than nine hundred years old. The objects are made of wood, bronze, copper, silver, brass, and fired clay. The collection includes ritual and ceremonial masks, statues, royal beds and utensils, healing art works and power mediums and vectors of good omens and repellants of dangerous charms. The collection is also rich in traditionally hand-woven fabric, hand-embroidered cloth, mud cloth, tie-dyed fabric, batik, and beaded objects. Bamboo and raffia works also abound in various traditional forms, both ancient and modern.
Lamido Grand Mosque (Ngaoundere)
The Lamido Grand Mosqu of Ngaoundéré is a large structure of reinforced concrete built in an international style that draws for inspiration upon Ottoman Imperial architecture filtered through the North African tradition, as evidenced by the large central dome and plan. The plan consists of a rectangular prayer hall oriented perpendicular to the qibla and situated to the east of a large square courtyard surrounded by an arcade. The main entrance is on axis with and on the opposite side of the courtyard from the mihrab, with peripheral entrances on the north and south sides of the courtyard. A small portal in the north east corner is intended for the
exclusive use of the Lamido, permitting him to take a position at the head.
of the congregation after all others have already arrived
The museum has more than one hundred major and significant objects of the cultural and artistic heritage of Bandjoun, one of the main centres of artistic creation and tradition in the Cameroonian Grassland. There are rare pieces, including some masterpieces of Africa art. They celebrate the pomp of the court of the kings of Bandjoun, the grandeur and the power of these monarchs and their retainers and the solidity of the institutions. They also materialise universal themes such as death, life, defeat, love, victory, power, prestige, occult forces etc. The superb royal thrones, the magnificent masks and beaded objects, the richly decorated architectonic elements, the fabrics with enigmatic patterns and various cultural objects which are at times the expression of the cycle of life, are often of great aesthetic and/or social and historical value.
Museum of the Civilizations of Cameroon (Dschang)
This museum offers to discover the origin of the Cameroonian people and the diversity of the country’s four large cultural domains via their history, but also their artistic productions, their architectures, and their political and social organizations.
For the past three centuries the Mousgoum have made their home in the flood plains that straddle the border between northern Cameroon and Chad. The Mousgoum and their celebrated house, referred to in Munjuk as tolek (pl. tolekakay) and are referred to in French as ‘cases obus’ (granate houses), have been known in the West since at least the 1850s, when the German explorer Heinrich Barth journeyed to north and central Africa. The Mousgoum buildings are an example of cob buildings and feature geometrical raised patterns. The architecture of Mousgoum houses follow the shape of a shell. The doorway is heavenly framed and really marks the entrance. The construction of Mousgoum houses is very solid, even though they have no foundation. Thicker walls at the base and thinner walls at the top of the construction enhance its strength. The top of the houses have an opening to allow for air circulation. The structure is highly textured, which allows for individualization of the surface.
Basilique de Mvolyé (Yaoundé)
The Basilique Marie-Reine-des-Apôtres (Mary Queen of the Apostles Basilica) is a Roman Catholic basilica dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary located in Yaoundé, Cameroon. The basilica is under the circumscription of the Archdiocese of Yaoundé. The basilica is built on the site of the first church built by the Missionaries of the Holy Spirit in Cameroon. The church was dedicated on March 2, 2006.
Monument de la Nouvelle Liberté (Douala)
Œuvre de l’artiste Joseph Francis Sumegne, « La nouvelle liberté » représente un homme qui danse. L’homme, en équilibre, s’appuie sur une jambe, lève un bras. D’une main, au-dessus de sa tête, il brandit un globe terrestre. La sculpture mesure plus de dix mètres, pèse quelque sept tonnes. À sa base, un piédestal de deux mètres en béton armé que prolonge, sous terre, un socle de la même facture. Le tout est conçu pour résister à des vents de plus de 160 km/h. « La nouvelle liberté » doit son existence à une association nommée Doual’Art, fondée en 1991.
Le musé de Luma, situé dans le Grand Batanga à 8 km du centre-ville de Kribi, est l'une des principales collections d'art et d'objets provenants du Cameroun et de pluisieurs pays africains et de nombreux outils et d'objets d'artisanat traditionnels de la région et des vestiges de la mer.
The Kings Bell Mansion was built in 1905 by the Germans for King Auguste Manga Ndumbe (King Bell).
World War I Memorial (Douala)
The World War I memorial in Douala commemorates those killed in the Cameroon Campaign.
Doual’art is a center for contemporary art, founded in 1991 as a non-profit organization by Marilyn Douala Bell and Didier Schaub. Its aim is to support the contemporary production of art in Cameroon with exhibitions, workshops, and seminars, and to use a participatory approach in furthering the development of cultural identity and aesthetic consciousness in the local population.
Cameroon Art Museum (Yaoundé)
This museum forms part of Yaoundé's Benedictine monastery at the Mt Fébé. It has a wonderful collection of masks, bronzes, wooden bas-reliefs and pottery. Look out for the brass sculpture of the 'Great Maternal Figure', from the area northeast of Foumban - similar sculpture is still produced at Foumban's Village des Artisans. The monastery's chapel (underneath the main church) is decorated with Cameroonian textiles and crafts, and kora are sometimes used to accompany the singing at Mass. The museum has a really handy English/French guidebook available at the entrance
The Museum presents cultural and artistic production of the Kingdom of Mankon of the high plateaux of Western Cameroon or the Grassland. This production, which represents an essential part of the cultural and artistic heritage of Mankon, plays a fundamental role in the cultural continuity of the society. Objects are pregnant with « meaning » but also identified characteristic forms, all bearers of memory in the treasures of the kings, notables and secret societies. The pieces are extraordinarily rich, both in their quality, the diversity of the domains they approach and by the variety of their decorative motifs, styles and themes. http://www.museumcam.org/
Reunification Monument (Yaoundé)
Ce monument symbolise toute l'histoire de la formation du Cameroun, en particulier la réunification du Southern Cameroon et du Cameroun oriental en 1961, puis l'unification des républiques fédérées du Cameroun dans la république unie du Cameroun en 1972. Il représente au premier plan un vieillard avec 5 enfants dans ses bras, brandissant le flambeau national, symbole de la Liberté. Le pilier dans la crypte, situé sous l'édifice derrière la sculpture, symbolise l'Intégration nationale, et les fresques murales colorées représentent des scènes de la vie camerounaise.
General Philippe Leclerc's Monument (Douala)
The museum presents a sample of major and significant objects from the rich cultural and artistic heritage of Babungo, which was formerly the most important iron-work centre in Cameroon. The treasure of the talented sculptor-kings of Babungo with thousands of pieces still remains the most impressive of the Grassland. The art objects of Babungo certainly express all the aspects of social life and the artistic heritage includes works belonging to different collections spread across the kingdom, but close to three-quarters of the important pieces were kept in the royal residence.
National Museum of Yaounde
Le musée national de Yaoundé comprend des objets d'art traditionnel, des tableaux modernes, des sculptures et des spécimens archéologiques de la préhistoire et de la civilisation des Sao du Nord-Cameroun. On y trouve un bon nombre d'outils du paléolithique et du néolithique: pierres taillées et pierres polies ainsi que des poteries très anciennes de la période "Sao". Une attention particulière doit être portée sur les statues de bois jumelles découvertes dans le Département du Mbam qui mesurent plus de deux mètres de hauteur.
Reunification Monument (Buea)
Structurally, the monument is an imposing edifice which weighs 162 tons, is 17.2 meters in diameter and 10 meters high. It consists of 10 pillars around a 2-ton reunification logo made of glass fiber. This edifice celebrates 50 years of reunification of the British Southern Cameroons and the French Cameroons. The monument was unveiled on Wednesday February 19, 2014 by President Paul Biya.
Blackitude Museum (Yaoundé)
Le Musée la Blackitude est une institution Muséeale de type ethnographique. Son projet commence en 1998 par la ferme volonté de sa présidente fondatrice Sa Majesté Fo Nab Ngo I NANA Agnès Sunjio. Dans un profond souci de sauver ce qui reste du patrimoine artistique au Cameroun, Fo Nab Ngo I qui détient un important trésor royal, décide dès mars 1998 de mettre en route son projet de Musée. Il comporte une collections du trésor royal et plus de 2070 objets d’art d’exception.
The collection here includes major objects from the cultural and artistic heritage of the kingdom of Baham. The works are simultaneously cultural and historical evidence, the last messages of men of the past and of today, fixing the collective and genealogical memory of the group, but also memories of the past which are destined to adapt to the present and to prepare the future.
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Museum of Bamum Art (Foumban)
Le Musée de Foumban raconte l'histoire de l'un des plus anciens royaumes de l'Afrique noire, au travers de plus de trois mille objets d'art et pièces historiques de la culture bamoun, dont certains vieux de plus de six cents ans. Vous pouvez voir ici les trésors du musée des arts traditionnels et de la culture du palais royal de Foumban. Autour du Musée, les artisans fabriquent et vendent une grande variété de pièces d'art qui va de l'imitation d'objets historiques à des créations modernes.
Ruben Um Nyobe's Statue (Eseka)
Inaugurated on June 22, 2007, the monument shows Um Nyobe returning from his December 1952 trip to the United Nations headquarters in New York where he forcefully made the case for the independence and reunification of Cameroon.