The Provincial Museum of Hargeisa

Abstract

In recent years considerable effort has been made in Somalia to improve the country's network of museums. Among other things this has led to the setting up of a museum in Hargeisa, the capital of the northern province and Somalia's second largest town. The history of this museum may be short but it is important, for it is the first to be set up in Somalia since independence in 1960.

1 Graduated from the faculty of philosophy in Belgrade. Ph.D. in art history, Ljubljana, 1965. Degree in ethnology at Belgrade, 1973. Museum curator in Belgrade and Ptuj (Slovenia). Has organized numerous exhibitions, mainly in the field of modern art and ethnology, in Yugoslavia and abroad. Has created five museum collections, and organized, designed, translated and compiled a large number of catalogues, introductions, studies and specialized articles on art history and ethnology. Museum consultant in Somalia, 1981–82.

1 Graduated from the faculty of philosophy in Belgrade. Ph.D. in art history, Ljubljana, 1965. Degree in ethnology at Belgrade, 1973. Museum curator in Belgrade and Ptuj (Slovenia). Has organized numerous exhibitions, mainly in the field of modern art and ethnology, in Yugoslavia and abroad. Has created five museum collections, and organized, designed, translated and compiled a large number of catalogues, introductions, studies and specialized articles on art history and ethnology. Museum consultant in Somalia, 1981–82.

Notes

1 Graduated from the faculty of philosophy in Belgrade. Ph.D. in art history, Ljubljana, 1965. Degree in ethnology at Belgrade, 1973. Museum curator in Belgrade and Ptuj (Slovenia). Has organized numerous exhibitions, mainly in the field of modern art and ethnology, in Yugoslavia and abroad. Has created five museum collections, and organized, designed, translated and compiled a large number of catalogues, introductions, studies and specialized articles on art history and ethnology. Museum consultant in Somalia, 1981–82.