National Museum of Music
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The National Museum of Music is located in Ouagadougou
, (Burkina Faso
) in a two-story building on Oubritenga Avenue on the south side of the Phillipe Zinda Kabore School. It is currently closed for extensive renovations, which began in 2009 and have no designated date for completion. Before renovations began, the museum was open Tuesday through Saturday from 9:00am to 12:30pm and from 15:00pm to 17:30pm.
The building that once housed the Association for the Development of African Architecture and Urban Planning (ADAUA), was renovated to accommodate the museum
. The building is in Sudanese Sahelian style with dome-shaped roofs.The museum is in the centre of the city and is easily accessible to the general public.
The first collection, put together between September 1998 and March 1999 is constantly growing. Instruments from all families are represented including aerophone
s, membranophone
s, idiophone
s and chordophone
s. Each object is the only one of its kind and varies from 5 to 200 years in age.
The museum is headed by the curator, Parfait Z. Bambara
Ouagadougou
Ouagadougou is the capital of Burkina Faso and the administrative, communications, cultural and economic center of the nation. It is also the country's largest city, with a population of 1,475,223 . The city's name is often shortened to Ouaga. The inhabitants are called ouagalais...
, (Burkina Faso
Burkina Faso
Burkina Faso – also known by its short-form name Burkina – is a landlocked country in west Africa. It is surrounded by six countries: Mali to the north, Niger to the east, Benin to the southeast, Togo and Ghana to the south, and Côte d'Ivoire to the southwest.Its size is with an estimated...
) in a two-story building on Oubritenga Avenue on the south side of the Phillipe Zinda Kabore School. It is currently closed for extensive renovations, which began in 2009 and have no designated date for completion. Before renovations began, the museum was open Tuesday through Saturday from 9:00am to 12:30pm and from 15:00pm to 17:30pm.
The building that once housed the Association for the Development of African Architecture and Urban Planning (ADAUA), was renovated to accommodate the museum
Museum
A museum is an institution that cares for a collection of artifacts and other objects of scientific, artistic, cultural, or historical importance and makes them available for public viewing through exhibits that may be permanent or temporary. Most large museums are located in major cities...
. The building is in Sudanese Sahelian style with dome-shaped roofs.The museum is in the centre of the city and is easily accessible to the general public.
The first collection, put together between September 1998 and March 1999 is constantly growing. Instruments from all families are represented including aerophone
Aerophone
An aerophone is any musical instrument which produces sound primarily by causing a body of air to vibrate, without the use of strings or membranes, and without the vibration of the instrument itself adding considerably to the sound...
s, membranophone
Membranophone
A membranophone is any musical instrument which produces sound primarily by way of a vibrating stretched membrane. It is one of the four main divisions of instruments in the original Hornbostel-Sachs scheme of musical instrument classification....
s, idiophone
Idiophone
An idiophone is any musical instrument which creates sound primarily by way of the instrument's vibrating, without the use of strings or membranes. It is the first of the four main divisions in the original Hornbostel-Sachs scheme of musical instrument classification...
s and chordophone
Chordophone
A chordophone is any musical instrument that makes sound by way of a vibrating string or strings stretched between two points. It is one of the four main divisions of instruments in the original Hornbostel-Sachs scheme of musical instrument classification....
s. Each object is the only one of its kind and varies from 5 to 200 years in age.
The museum is headed by the curator, Parfait Z. Bambara