FREDDIE MERCURY MUSEUM
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Museum dedicated to the singer of Queen, Freddie Mercury, which houses notes and texts in his hand, instruments and photos of concerts.
International icon and Queen singer Freddie Mercury, real name Farrokh Bulsara, a native of Unguja Island, finally has his own dedicated museum, opening in 2019. The museum is housed in his childhood home, in the heart of Stone Town. The collection is very modest and admission is expensive, but the fund was difficult to raise with limited private means. Fans of the artist will discover, in addition to notes and texts in his own hand, a few instruments and photos of concerts, his astonishing childhood. Born into a middle-class family of Indian origin in 1946 - his father was then an accountant for the British Colonial Office - he was of the Zoroastrian religion (imported by the Persians), as attested by the register of the local temple of the Parsi community to which he belonged. We discover him in a romper in his mother's arms, alongside his little sister Kashmira. The collection also includes old photos of Stone Town, showing slaves carrying colossal ivory tusks. The young boy was soon sent to boarding school in India at the age of 7, far from his family, who eventually joined him. He formed his first rock band at the age of 12! They returned to live in Zanzibar briefly until 1964, when the revolution broke out. The island's notable Arabs and Indians were suddenly driven out in a bloody massacre, from which he escaped at the age of 17. The family fled to the UK. The rest of his life is well known.
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