Boubou Hama National Museum- Travel Tips

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Reviews of National Museum

• Sidi Koté

  2

  Reviewed: 2023-08-23

  Disappointing experience. Place looks not maintained at all, and the animals in the zoo lacked space, especially the lions locked in tiny cages. Dinosaurs' skeletons are the only nice thing to see.

• Lee Sei Loong

  2

  Reviewed: 2022-08-26

  The museum and the zoo are in the same place. When we arrived to buy the museum ticket (XOF 1500), we also asked us to buy the camera ticket (XOF 1000), but the staff inside the museum told us that we could not take pictures. It's none of their business when you go out and ask for a refund. They told us after the ticket was sold, no refund could be made, really shouldn't cheat tourists like that.

• Holly S

  1

  Reviewed: 2021-07-12

  Seeing the animals kept in the tiny cages without water or comfort hurt my heart. Interesting dinosaurs. Was hoping to see inside the museum but it closes for certain hours. Posted a photo to help others.

• Mumbi Mumbi

  2

  Reviewed: 2021-02-27

  The animals in the zoo looked sad and out of place. Museum is not clean. Nice artefacts sold there. No guide Lion oil was being sold all over Dinosaur skeletons were a marvel to see.

• Eric Rudberg

  4

  Reviewed: 2018-06-07

  When it comes to a place like this museum/zoo, you have to look at in two ways. If I was to compare it to a museum/zoo in the United States or Europe I'd give it two stars tops. There really wasn't much to the museum part but the stuff they did have was interesting. Even though I don't speak French I still really appreciate the display on traditional garb, the scale model of the oil refinery, and the display on uranium mining (I didn't realize Niger was the fourth largest producer in the world...and the attendant in the room was very enthusiastic explaining it all to me even though I couldn't understand a word he was saying). If you compared this museum to most other museums I've seen in Africa it would get a high 4, maybe 5. The dinosaur display was incredible! Never in the US or Europe would you be allowed that close to the actual bones. That alone is worth the entrance fee. The zoo was very sad and depressing. The animals are in way too small of cages in just concrete floors. They also didn't have anything to entertain themselves with. They just laid there bored out of their minds or just extremely agitated. I'm sure they are doing the best they can with what they have but still very sad.