NATIONAL MUSEUM

ASABA

Brief:
The museum was established in the Mungo Park House, a prefabricated colonial structure and historical edifice, which was constructed by the Royal Niger Company (RNC) in 1886 and used successively as its administrative headquarters (1886-1900), military centre, Colonial Administrative divisional headquarters, depot of RNC Constabulary (1904-1910) and seat of the Urban District Council (1954-1976).

Collections:
Colonial history/history of Asaba, Ethnographic

Pictorial Exhibition:
Traditional Rulership in Delta State: Enduring Legacies

Other Facilities:
An extension office at the Federal Secretariat, Asaba
Bookshop
Museum Kitchen and Craft Village complex under construction at Mungo Park House premises

Address:
Off Nnebisi Road (behind Delta State Library Board)
P.M.B. 95071
Asaba
Delta State
Tel. +234 (0) 803 374 6043
E mail: asaba@nigerianmuseums.org

Curator:
Ogundele J. O.
E-Mail: j.ogundele@nigerianmuseums.org