NATIONAL MUSEUM

ORON

Brief:
The museum is the first Nigerian museum to be established east of the Niger by K. C. Murrey. It and was originally established to house the Ekpu Oroancestral figures of the Oron people and was opened to the public in 1959. It was destroyed during the Nigerian Civil War and its contents looted. The museum was re-built and re-opened as a National Museum with an ethnographic research exhibition by Keith Nicklin in 1977.

Collections:
Ethnographic

Archaeological

Permanent Exhibition:
Religious Art of the Cross River Peoples

Other Facilities:
Museum Shop
Open-air amphitheatre
Civil War Bunker
Cafeteria Sirenia
Prince Chris Abasi Eyo Sea-side Resort Garden

Address:
Oron Beach
P.M.B. 1004
Oron
Akwa Ibom State
Tel.+234 (0) 803 668 7739
E-mail: oron@nigerianmuseums.org

Curator:
Adeoye O. Akanni
E-MAIL: ao.akanni@nigerianmuseums.org
natmuseo@yahoo.com