Africa-Press – Angola. The director of the Provincial Office of Culture, Tourism, Youth and Sports, José Pinto, announced this Wednesday that the local government plans to build a new “Museum Village” near the Bala-Bala Archaeological Station.
According to the person responsible, the aim is to ensure the conditions for the concentration of artisans, with a view to revitalizing initiatives to produce pieces necessary for the collection of the Dundo Regional Museum, including marketing to people interested in culture. Lunda-Cokwe.
He said it was a project within the scope of the renovation of the museum institution.
According to the person responsible, the projection of the Dundo Regional Museum, by the then Companhia de Diamantes de Angola (DIAMANG), in the distant year of 1936 with the beginning of the process of collecting the museum collection, had a great participation of local communities, with a view to compliance with global standards.
He added that its genesis included the creation of related areas, depending on the size presented by the mentors, including the extinct Aldeia Museu, the zoological and botanical gardens, acclimatization gardens, the Bala-Bala Archaeological Station, the biological laboratory for the study of tropical taxonomy in Africa and other areas extending from the Luachimo, Chicapa, Chiumbue, Luembe, Luarica rivers to the Maludi.
He said that the extinct Aldeia Museu played an important role in the continued appreciation and increase of the collection of the Dundo Regional Museum and was an area to give space to all craft creators, as in addition to the production of new works, it had The aim is to ensure the maintenance of all pieces of identity of the Lunda-Cokwe culture.
He explained that it was a kind of “sanctuary” for the makers of masterpieces and guardians of the local museum collection, “endowed with an enviable skill”, hence the need to build a new village to play the same role.
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