National Museum of Mali

The National Museum of Mali in Bamako is the country's leading cultural institution, tracing its origins to the colonial period and rebuilt in modern galleries in the 1980s. Its collection of textiles, masks, terracottas and archaeological finds is among the richest in West Africa, with celebrated holdings from the Niger Inland Delta and Dogon country. Its architecture echoes Sudano-Sahelian mud styles, and its gardens hold reconstructed traditional structures. It helps safeguard Malian heritage threatened by conflict.