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Musée de la Mer

The Musée de la Mer is a located in , Senegal. The museum contains various documents and photos on marine animals in Senegal with a collection of 6,000 species.
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  • Opening hours: Tuesday—Sunday 10:30 AM—noon and 2:30 PM—6:00 PM
  • Type: Museum
  • Description: museum in Gorée, Senegal

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Church of Saint Charles Borromee (Goree) and Museum of Black Civilisations.

Church
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is situated 260 metres southeast of Musée de la Mer.

Museum
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The is a national museum in , , that opened on 6 December 2018. It is directed by Hamady Bocoum, an archaeologist and researcher at Cheikh-Anta-Diop University. is situated 4 km west of Musée de la Mer.

Railway station
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is a railway station, which is situated 3½ km west of Musée de la Mer.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Gorée and Dakar-Plateau.

Suburb
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Île de is one of the 19 communes d'arrondissement of the city of , Senegal. It is an 18.2-hectare island located two kilometres at sea from the main harbour of Dakar, famous as a destination for people interested in the Atlantic slave trade.

Suburb
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is an arrondissement in the Dakar Department, and forms the central district of the city of . is situated 4 km west of Musée de la Mer.

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is the capital and largest city of and is often regarded as the cultural and commercial center of French-speaking West Africa. is often the first stop in exploring French-speaking West Africa because it has good flight connections with Western Europe.

Musée de la Mer

Latitude
14.66835° or 14° 40′ 6″ north
Longitude
-17.3999° or 17° 23′ 60″ west
Open location code
7C64MJ92+82
Open­Street­Map ID
way 217857425
Open­Street­Map feature
building=­yes
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­museum
Wiki­data ID
Q16665634
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Wolof—“Musée de la Mer” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “متحف البحر”
  • French: “musée de la Mer”
  • French: “Musée de la Mer”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Musée de la Mer”
  • Hausa: “Musée de la Mer”
  • Spanish: “Museo de la Mer”
  • Wolof: “Musée de la mer (Gorée)”
  • Wolof: “Musée de la mer”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Musée de la Mer”. Photo: Zythème, CC0.