Nigerian National Museum

Located in Lagos, Nigeria, the Nigerian National Museum is a national museum of Nigeria, located in the city of Lagos. The museum has a notable collection of Nigerian art, including pieces of statuary and carvings and archaeological, music instruments and ethnographic exhibits. Of note is a terracotta human head from Jemaa (circa 900 to 200 BC), part of the Nok culture. It is located at Onikan, Lagos Island.

Founded in 1957 by an English archaeologist called Kenneth Murray, the museum also operates a nonprofit crafts center, which stocks a good range of batik cloth, woodcarvings and textiles at fixed prices.

There’s a fine range of intricately decorated calabashes from across Nigeria. The museum has a small crafts village with woodcarvings and other handicrafts for sale at fixed prices; you might also see a demonstration of adire – cloth-making from Abeokuta.
It opens daily (except Sundays) from 9am to 5pm.