Caravan Serai Museum
Dublin Core
Title
Caravan Serai Museum
Subject
HISTORY
Description
This museum in Bagamoyo Historic Town has a small display documenting the slave trade. The museum is in one of the historic building that was used a guest house for slave trade dealers during the 19th century. The displays in the museum include coins, ceramics of different types, beads, and other ethnographic objects that are associated with slave and ivory trade during the 19th century when Bagamoyo was a terminus for the Central caravan route.
Date
Swahili,Colonial,Liberation,Post-Colonial
Contributor
Elgidius B. Ichumbaki
Type
Site
Identifier
13
Date Modified
02/13/2021 06:37:12 am
Date Submitted
14/11/2019
Extent
cm x cm x cm
Spatial Coverage
current,-6.444542,38.906361;
Provenance
Antiquities Division
Europeana
Europeana Data Provider
Caravan Serai Museum
Europeana Type
TEXT
Site Item Type Metadata
Institutional nature
Historical
Place
Ministry of Natura Resources and Tourism, Askari road, Kilimani street, P.O.Box 1351- 40472-Dodoma C/o Conservation Commissioner , Tanzania National Parks S.L.P 3134 Arusha Dar es Salaam
Prim Media
153
Status
gazetted
Stewardship
Tanzania National Parks (TANAPA)
Condition
3
Contact
frida.msongo@maliasili.go.tz
Sub Type
Slave Trade
Files
Citation
“Caravan Serai Museum,” Tanzania, accessed February 1, 2025, https://sdhtanzania.org/omeka/items/show/14.