Preservation of our Cultural Heritage: The case of Museums as educational and economic centres.
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December, 2010.
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This research is about evaluating the rising decline of interest in African history, arts and
architecture amongst Africans, and offer solutions through a physical edifice.
It is imperative for the African to be adequately equipped with this knowledge of his / her history, arts and architecture which can go a long way to enhance the total development of the continent. Africa must also have a physical platform of documenting, preserving, and presenting life-giving cultural heritage for the benefit of its own people and the international body.
This research did not seek to admonish a return to the negative, somewhat backward practices of the African. It rather investigated the benefits of cultural knowledge acquisition to any group of people, and the physical design intervention that can facilitate the former.
This research employed techniques of analyzing information that border on African cultural issues and their impacts on their economies. Also, past efforts of keeping and disseminating cultural information in all parts of the world were reviewed.
Ultimately, there was a proposal or recommendation of an architectural edifice that will house, preserve and present life-giving cultural knowledge of Africa. Its location and design was conceptualized to fuse with everyday activities of commerce and residence to promote active user-participation all the time.
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A thesis submitted to the Department of Architecture, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the award of Master of Architecture Degree on