The Botswana National Museum, also known as the National Museum and Art Gallery, is located in the

Botswana Botswana (, ), officially the Republic of Botswana ( tn, Lefatshe la Botswana, label= Setswana, ), is a landlocked country in Southern Africa. Botswana is topographically flat, with approximately 70 percent of its territory being the Kalaha ...

capital of

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and is a multi-disciplinary institution that includes the National Art Gallery and Octagon Gallery, as well as—since November 2007—the National Botanical Garden. It displays traditional Botswana crafts and paintings and aims to celebrate the work of local artists. The museum is also involved with the preservation of

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, the country's first

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area, among other efforts. It is the caretaker of Tsholofelo Park, the burial place of the " negro of Banyoles," known as "El Negro" in Botswana, following the body's return from the Darder Museum of Banyoles, in

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. The museum was established in 1967 via an

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and it officially opened to the public in 1968. The museum celebrated a year-long 40th anniversary in 2008 under the banner of "Museum as Agents of Social Change and Development", mirroring that used by the

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Gallery of the National Museum of Botswana

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at the national museum

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References

External links

Official site
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