BUJORA CULTURAL CENTER AND SUKUMA MUSEUM

BUJORA SUKUMA MUSEUM
Sukuma museum is the community based organization that promote and celebrate the traditional and contemporary arts of Sukuma culture.
 The Bujora Cultural Center and Sukuma Museum in Kisesa, Tanzania, are historical institutions founded for the education and support of Sukuma culture. The arts of the Sukuma culture are among the richest in East Africa. As the Sukuma people are the largest cultural group in Tanzania, the Sukuma culture is dispersed throughout the country. The heart of Usukuma is in the Lake Zone of Mwanza, Shinyanga and the Mara regions where the legacy of a rich art tradition is now maintained

 The Sukuma Museum has a target audience of 1.5 million people. The Museum is visited by approximately 2,000 paying visitors annually, numerous schools from the Mwanza region and many more local residents participate daily at the Center and utilize the Museum grounds as well as many foreign visitors. The Bujora Cultural Center was founded in 1954. Today it is administered by the Bujora Board of Advisors Committee and the Bujora Coordination Committee

 On top its a Bujora museum logo  and some of the domestic tourists who have visited the museum while on the left side its a church made of sukuma traditions.

  A General manager, Chairman, Museum Director and African Clinic Coordinator serve as the main administration, while a support staff including a museum guide, accountant, and three environmental services personnel help to oversee the Museum. In addition, five teachers instruct the students of the Handicraft School in traditional Sukuma arts.

 The Sukuma Museum and Cultural Center provides an artistic, spiritual, intellectual and community focal point for Sukuma culture, which both celebrates and promotes the creativity of traditional and contemporary Sukuma art, architecture, and dance. As the first cultural institution to represent the Sukuma people, the Museum was the seed that evolved into the Bujora Cultural Center. Today the Cultural Center serves as the umbrella organization for the Sukuma Museum, the Sukuma Archives, the Sukuma Research Committee, the African Clinic, the Bujora Church, the Bana Sesilia Dance Troupe, the Handicraft School and the Course Center.

 These are some of the instruments in which Sukuma chiefs and kings use them during their regns.

on the left side those are some of the Sukuma traditional utensils used for different purpose like drinking milk, water e.t.c.

 On the right side its a house used for by Sukuma for their traditinal dances like Bogobogo.

Entrance fees
Foreigners per person:
8,000/= TSH (adults)
4,000/= TSH for children
This includes Museum guided tour (duration: approx. one hour), photographing and snake show.
Video shooting is 10,000/= TSH (exclusive guided tour).
Watching traditional dances is 60,000/= TSH (for one to ten persons) and for a group of people more than ten is 80,000/= TSH.

The affordable price that  any visitor can afford!