Musée en Plein Air de Parakou
Musée en Plein Air de Parakou is a museum located approximately 1.5 kilometres south of the centre of the city Parakou, Benin in the suburbs. The museum consists of five circular complexes representing the traditional housing of the local Batanou peoples.
- Type: Museum
- Description: cultural museum near Parakou, Benin
- Also known as: “Musee en Plein Air de Parakou”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Place Hubert Maga and Parakou Airport.
Place Hubert Maga
Memorial
Parakou Airport
Aerodrome
Parakou Airport is a public use airport located 1 km northwest of Parakou, Borgou, Benin. It is to be replaced by the Tourou International Airport, a new airport in Tankaro, about 10 km northwest of Parakou, which will feature an asphalt runway 3,500 m in length. Parakou Airport is situated 3½ km north of Musée en Plein Air de Parakou.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kpébié and Parakou.
Parakou
Parakou is the largest city in northern Benin, and the third-largest city in the country, with an estimated population of 206,667 people, and capital of the Borgou Department. Administratively, the commune of Parakou makes one of Benin's 77 communes.
Sokouno
Hamlet
Sokouno is a village in the commune of Parakou in the Borgou Department of central-eastern Benin. It is located south-east of Parakou city centre on the RNIE 6 road. Sokouno is situated 6 km northeast of Musée en Plein Air de Parakou.
Musée en Plein Air de Parakou
- Categories: ethnographic museum, botanical garden, tourism, and tourist attraction
- Location: Borgou Department, Benin, West Africa, Africa
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Latitude
9.32897° or 9° 19′ 44″ north
Longitude
2.61853° or 2° 37′ 7″ east
Open location code
6FX48JH9+HC
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
tourism=museum
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Spanish—“Musée en Plein Air de Parakou” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Museu a l’aire lliure de Parakou”
- Central Kurdish: “مۆزەخانەی پلێن ئیر دی پاراکۆ”
- Finnish: “Parakoun ulkomuseo”
- French: “musée ethnographique et de plein air de Parakou”
- French: “Musée ethnographique et de plein air de Parakou”
- Igbo: “Musée en Plein Air de Parakou”
- Igbo: “Musee na Plein Air de Parakou”
- Polish: “muzeum plenerowe w Parakou”
- Spanish: “Museo al aire libre de Parakou”
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include PASE DRBA TITIROU PAVE and Mosquée.
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