2024

THE SHEIKAN MUSEUM

Museums

Closed on Friday and Saturday. Free entrance. In the name of the battle that allowed the mahdistes to take the Anglo-Egyptian out of Kordofan, the museum is a great part of this important episode in Sudanese national history. Of course, the battle is a little the pride of the city and its inhabitants, who are thus fully asserting Sudanese. Many objects dating from this period are exposed, the Mahdi and the battle explained. For a museum of this size, all its collections are particularly rich. From Prehistory to La, you can see several very beautiful pieces, especially from ancient and medieval Nuba sites. There is also an ethnographic space. First useful lighting in a region whose diversity is one of the fundamental characteristics.

The failure of this museum is to have days and times of sometimes fanciful opening.

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