Museum of the Henriette-Bathily Woman

The museum of the Woman Henriette-Bathily is located on the island of Gorée (Senegal), opposite the Maison of the Slaves.

According to a project conceived as of 1987 by the scenario writer Ousmane William Mbaye, it was launched in June 1994 under the direction of Annette Mbaye d' Erneville.

Collections

In this beautiful colonial residence on two floors, built in 1777 and having belonged to a rich person Signare, Victoria Albis, one finds agricultural objects usual, tools, musical instruments, potteries, basket makings, as well as photographs making it possible to better include/understand the daily life of the woman in the country. The great figures of the female emancipation in Senegal are also celebrated there, for example the novelist Aminata Sow Fall.

Activities

Workshops are organized there and the women of the island find themselves there to work together, follow courses of elimination of illiteracy or to receive a formation with the craft industry (dyeing, batik, weaving or traditional embroidery). Specific projects are intended to the handicapped women.

Radiation

The institution seems to suffer from the immediate vicinity of the House of the Slaves which drains all the come visitors with Gorée, but the function of animation and the sociological range of this first museum dedicated to the women on the African continent are undeniable.

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