Minister of Tourism, Arts and Culture-designate, Catherine Afeku has announced that part of the Christianborg (Osu) Castle would be converted into a museum to house relics of Ghanaian legends.
The castle, which until 2012 was the seat of Ghana’s government, is located at the coast in the country’s capital, Accra.
The nominee told parliament’s Appointments Committee on Monday that about 6 rooms in the colonial edifice would be used for that purpose. Responding to a question from a member of the committee on what her ministry will do to take advantage of historical figures, she said the conversion of the castle is part of the process to retool the Ghana Museum Board.
“…we are applying for the Christianborg Castle, a portion of it, about six rooms, we intend once given the nod to create a presidential museum,” the Tourism Minister-designate said.
Mrs. Afeku noted that the project will provide a 24-hour museum that people can see things used by “legends of our nation” including the “jackets that they wore, the books they wrote, even the pots they ate in”.
She regretted that persons like Paa Grant, who is regarded as “the father of Gold Coast politics”, have their homes abandoned, assuring that their homes would be renovated as tourist attraction sites.
After taking part in the transition process, Mrs. Afeku said she was “amazed” at what Ghana has in terms of tourism, stating that the private sector would be brought on board to support the tourism sector.
Source: 3news.com
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IS THIS A PRIORITY FOR THE COUNTRY? THEY ARE GOING TO WASTE MONEY AGAIN ON HUGE CONTRACTS!!
Instead of limiting it to ex-presidents include all things that symbolize our democracy.In view of this i will suggest we call it the 'Democracy Museum'.We can exhibits things like the first kind of ballot boxes, ballot papers, samples of even the ink we used in 1992.We can also include the original papers from which our president-elects read their victory speech(we can think of soo many artifacts to exhibit).Our students should be made to visit this museum to teach them about how far we have come as a nation as far as our democracy is concerned.Its a brilliant idea and i wish the minister all the best
Let the Osu Christianborg Castle convert to Ghana's PANTHEON THAT STORES THE HEROIC DEEDS OF THE REPUBLIC OF GHANA. Beyond tourism, this pantheon becomes a store house for our learning scholars.
I have personally seen the former residence of former president Bill Clinton of US, on the campus of University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR. He used this building before he became the president. He and his wife occupied the building when they both taught at the School of Law of the university. It is now called CLINTON HOUSE. Remember he was once a governor of the state of Arkansas before he became the president. Such initiatives as espoused by Minister Designate is laudable.
THE OSU CASTLE CAN STILL SERVE BOTH PURPOSE MESEUM AND IMMEDIATE EX PRESIDENRT OFFICE
i think we should think of converting the castle in presidential offices for ex-presidents to foster national unity and also avert political polarization in the country. any your idea is also not bad.