Dundo Museum
The Dundo Museum, officially the Dundo Regional Museum and formerly called the Dungo Ethnographic Museum, is a national ethnographic and natural history museum in Dundo, Lunda Norte Province, Angola.- Type: Museum
- Description: ethnographic and natural history museum in Angola founded in 1936 by Diamang as the country’s first museum; focuses on Chokwe and eastern Angolan heritage, with collections shaped by colonial logic and ongoing post-civil war repatriation efforts
- Also known as: “Dundo Regional Museum”, “Dungo Ethnographic Museum”, and “Museu Regional do Dundo”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights: Dundo Airport and Chitato Airport.
Dundo Airport
Aerodrome
Dundo Airport, or Camaquenzo I Airport, is an airport serving the city of Dundo, the capital of Lunda Norte Province in Angola. The Dundo non-directional beacon is located on the field. Dundo Airport is situated 3½ km southwest of Dundo Museum.
Chitato Airport
Aerodrome
Chitato Airport is an airport serving Dundo, Angola. The runway is 3 kilometres northwest of the city. The Chitato and Dundo non-directional beacons are located south of the field. Chitato Airport is situated 4 km northwest of Dundo Museum.
Luachimo Hydropower Plant
Industrial building
The Luachimo Hydroelectric Power Station is a hydroelectric power plant near Luachimo in northeast Angola, close to the border with the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Luachimo Hydropower Plant is situated 2 km northeast of Dundo Museum.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Dundo.
Dundo
Town
Dundo, or Dundo-Chitato, is a former mining town, with a population of 240,410, now a city and the provincial capital of Lunda Norte in Angola. Established in the early part of the 20th century as a planned diamond mining community, Dundo has continued to grow, has its own airport and is now being superseded by a new city, New Dundo.
Dundo Museum
- Categories: tourism and tourist attraction
- Location: Luanda Norte Province, Angola, Central Africa, Africa
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Latitude
-7.37885° or 7° 22′ 44″ south
Longitude
20.83474° or 20° 50′ 5″ east
Open location code
6G42JRCM+FV
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OpenStreetMap feature
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In Other Languages
From Hausa to Portuguese—“Dundo Museum” goes by many names.
- Hausa: “Gidan kayan gargajiya na Dundo”
- Portuguese: “Museu do Dundo”
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Highlights: clinic Sagrada Esperança and Dundo Nova.
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