Musée Da-Silva, History museum in Porto-Novo, Benin.

The Musée Da-Silva occupies an Afro-Brazilian style house built in 1890, formerly owned by a wealthy Agouda family, between the lagoon and the cathedral of Porto-Novo. Some rooms keep period furniture and old photographs on the walls. Each part of the building is devoted to one theme: African civilisation, Greco-Roman civilisation, famous black figures, women, and black musical heritage.

The museum opened on 2 November 1998, founded by Karim da Silva during the wave of heritage institutions created in Benin from the early 1990s. President Mathieu Kérékou attended the inauguration. It occupies a house built in 1890 for a wealthy Agouda family, the Afro-Brazilian returnees whose Portuguese-based patois gave them their name.

The name Agouda, used for the Afro-Brazilian families of Porto-Novo, comes from an old Portuguese patois spoken among their mixed-race descendants. The house belonged to one such wealthy family before becoming a museum. Some rooms keep furniture of the period and old photographs hang on the walls.

The museum sits between the Porto-Novo lagoon and the cathedral, in a house built in 1890. The entrance fresco along the fence, "devoir de mémoire de l'esclavagisme européen", is seen before entering. Rooms are furnished in period style with old photographs on the walls, so allow time to look closely.

The entrance fresco along the fence, titled "devoir de mémoire de l'esclavagisme européen", traces the triangular trade and the march of enslaved people. It is one of the first things a visitor sees before entering the house.