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building on Providence Island but four years
later this building was removed to facilitate
the construction of the People’s Bridge over
the Mesurado River.
It was later moved to the Old Supreme
Court building on Broad Street and reopened
on July 25, 1987.
The museum is classified in three tiers,
where on the ground floor there is a histo-
graphical gallery containing presidential pa-
pers, private documents and memoirs of past
important executives of the Liberian govern-
ment and photographs and cartographical
resources related to Liberia’s culture. On
display is the nation’s first flag dating back to
July, 1847. There are also other items ranging
from postage stamps to an editorial page
of Liberia’s first daily newspaper, the Liberia
Herald. Other items include traditional Libe-
rian household furniture and utensils, and the
inaugural attire worn by Africa’s First Female
President, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf as well as
the jersey of the only African footballer to win
World Best, now President, George Weah.
On the next floor is the Ethnographical
Gallery and on the top floor the contempo-
rary arts gallery which illustrates Liberian
artistic works many of which are product of a
contract between the museum and art institu-
tions and art colleges throughout the country
where artists are commissioned to produce
for the museum purposes.
Other museum facilities include a portable
video system, editing and archival materials,
cassette recordings and slides of visual and
oral arts many of which offer an insight into
Liberian cultures such as dance and the use
of masks in the country.
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building on Providence Island but four years
later this building was removed to facilitate
the construction of the People’s Bridge over
the Mesurado River.
It was later moved to the Old Supreme
Court building on Broad Street and reopened
on July 25, 1987.
The museum is classified in three tiers,
where on the ground floor there is a histo-
graphical gallery containing presidential pa-
pers, private documents and memoirs of past
important executives of the Liberian govern-
ment and photographs and cartographical
resources related to Liberia’s culture. On
display is the nation’s first flag dating back to
July, 1847. There are also other items ranging
from postage stamps to an editorial page
of Liberia’s first daily newspaper, the Liberia
Herald. Other items include traditional Libe-
rian household furniture and utensils, and the
inaugural attire worn by Africa’s First Female
President, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf as well as
the jersey of the only African footballer to win
World Best, now President, George Weah.
On the next floor is the Ethnographical
Gallery and on the top floor the contempo-
rary arts gallery which illustrates Liberian
artistic works many of which are product of a
contract between the museum and art institu-
tions and art colleges throughout the country
where artists are commissioned to produce
for the museum purposes.
Other museum facilities include a portable
video system, editing and archival materials,
cassette recordings and slides of visual and
oral arts many of which offer an insight into
Liberian cultures such as dance and the use
of masks in the country.
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