The Golden Stool of the Asante Kingdom has for the first time in a long while been outdoored for the world and the young generation to have an experience of it.
The glorious and breathtaking embodiment of the soul of the people of the Asante…
Tristram Hunt, director of the V&A, shakes hands with Otumfuo Osei Tutu II
Artefacts looted by the British in the colonial era have been returned to Ghana and are already on public view. So why is it taking Nigeria so long to put its returned treasures…
The revered Golden Stool of the Asante Kingdom will go on display on Sunday, May 12, 2024, during the culmination of the Silver Jubilee of the King, His Majesty Otumfuo Osei Tutu II.
This was revealed by Nana Otuo Sereboe II, the Paramount Chief of…
Historic Asante gold court regalia acquired by the V&A in 1874 from items looted by British troops during the Anglo-Asante Wars has gone on show in Ghana for the first time in 150 years, through a significant cultural partnership between Manhyia Palace Museum, the V&A and the…
About one thousand framed pictures chronicling the unprecedented and illustrious reign of Asantehene Otumfuo Osei Tutu II have been displayed in a tabernacle mounted at the Afia Kobi Park inside the Manhyia Palace in Kumasi.
The Photo Exhibition was inaugurated by the King on May…
The King of the Asante Kingdom, His Majesty Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, has urged natives of Asanteman and the world to visit the Manhyia Palace Museum to behold and experience the elegance and magnificence of Asante traditional artisanship.
The elegance is evident in the recently…
Anyone who visits the Manhyia Palace Museum from May 2, 2024, when the tourist site is opened to the general public would witness an augmented facility.
The Museum is now home to 39 new artefacts that were lost among other precious gold and silver objects…
The King of the Asante Kingdom, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II has taken delivery of 32 of the artefacts stolen by the British from the Palace of Asantehene Kofi Karikari in Kumasi during the 1874 Sagrenti War.
They included 15 gold and silver objects from the…
After 150 years, 32 of the artefacts stolen by the British from the Palace of Asantehene Kofi Karikari in Kumasi during the 1874 Sagrenti War have returned home.
Fifteen (15) gold and silver objects from the British Museum and 17 from the Victoria and Albert…
There is an adage that “black is not just beautiful; it’s magical,” and that proved true when Asanteman convened at the Manhyia Palace in black attire to observe the culmination of the 150th anniversary of the Sagrenti War.
Though the event portrayed the solemnity of…
Stolen Asante artefacts from two museums in the United Kingdom (UK) are expected to be flown into Ghana and finally to Asanteman three months from now.
This was revealed by Mr Ivor Agyeman-Duah, one of Asantehene Otumfuo Osei Tutu’s technical advisors leading negotiations for the…
The gallery in Fowler Museum which housed seven pieces of Asante artefacts that were stolen during the Sagrenti War of 1874 will not remain vacant.
The gallery will be filled with replicas of the crafts made by Asanteman as an appreciative gesture for their willingness…