Abasuba Community Peace Museum, Ethnographic museum on Mfangano Island, Kenya
The Abasuba Community Peace Museum is an ethnographic museum on Mfangano Island that holds traditional items and documents from seven local clans. Its collections include everyday objects, tools, and personal items that reveal how these groups lived and worked across the island.
This museum was founded at the start of the new century to preserve the stories and knowledge of local residents. Since then it has become a center where people can learn about the past settlement of the island and the region's history.
The museum documents how the Suba people established themselves on the island and developed their own practices over generations. Visitors observe how community members today connect these past ways with their current lives and beliefs.
The museum is most easily visited when staying on the island itself, since reaching it from larger towns requires a boat ride across the lake. The location has basic facilities, and it helps to ask ahead about when community members are available to show visitors around and answer questions.
The museum partners with specialists to research and document ancient rock art on the island that dates back hundreds of years. This rock art appears at several locations around Mfangano and provides evidence that people lived here long before the communities of today.
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