The guided tour of the Museum of Black Civilisations in Dakar puts a guide at your disposal for about four hours. The guiding is sold on its own: transport, lunch and the museum entry ticket are at your own expense, and the museum is closed on Mondays.

One guide, four hours

The service is simple: a guide goes with you around the museum, for about 4 hours. Nothing else is included. Transport to the museum and food are at the visitor’s expense, and museum entry is paid on site, on top of the guide’s price.

Plan for a morning or an afternoon: four hours of guided visit leave the rest of the day for another visit or a lunch in town. Bring water and comfortable shoes: a four-hour museum visit is almost entirely on your feet. The guide accompanies the visit and answers questions.

Choosing your day

The museum is closed on Mondays: book another day of the week. As transport is not included, also plan your own journey to the museum, by car or taxi, depending on where you are staying in Dakar.

A museum to understand Dakar

Dakar is not visited by ticking off a list of monuments: you grasp it through its districts, its ocean and its tempo. The museum is one of the ways in. If you live in Dakar, it is a visit that gives a thread to a place you know by name or in passing, with someone to answer your questions for four hours. If you are visiting, a cultural landmark before heading to Gorée or the Petite Côte. The Museum of Black Civilisations page presents the place, and Dakar gathers the city’s other visits.

To extend your visit

Another museum in the city, the Théodore Monod Museum of African Art, completes the picture, and the African Renaissance Monument offers one more landmark over the city. Gorée Island can be visited on another day, and the guided cultural visits gather other routes.