Elmina Java Museum, Cultural museum in Elmina, Ghana.

The Elmina Java Museum is a private museum in Elmina, Ghana, founded by the Edward A. Ulzen Memorial Foundation. It documents the Belanda Hitam, West African soldiers recruited in the 19th century for the Royal Netherlands East Indies Army, and traces the Ulzen family from Jan Ulsen, a Dutch West India Company employee who arrived in 1732.

The museum opened in 2003, founded by the Edward A. Ulzen Memorial Foundation after Thaddeus Patrick Manus Ulzen announced at the September 2000 Belanda Hitam descendants' reunion in Schiedam that his family would provide a permanent site. It honours the Belanda Hitam, West African soldiers recruited in the 19th century for the Royal Netherlands East Indies Army, and the Ulzen family, whose line runs from Jan Ulsen, a Dutch West India Company employee who arrived in 1732.

The name Belanda Hitam, "Black Dutchmen" in Malay, refers to the African soldiers recruited on the Gold Coast for the Royal Netherlands East Indies Army. The museum keeps their story alive, and descendants of these soldiers still gather at biennial reunions, the tenth of which was held in Schiedam in September 2000.

The museum sits near Elmina Castle and is easy to reach on foot. It offers educational programs and regular exhibitions that are best visited on weekdays when you have more time to explore.

The museum is the first private museum in Ghana, opened in 2003 by the Edward A. Ulzen Memorial Foundation. Its name links Elmina to Java Hill, the family home described in Thaddeus Patrick Manus Ulzen's 2013 book Java Hill: An African Journey, which traces ten generations from Brielle in the Netherlands to Elmina.