2014 World Museum Day witnesses large turnout in Plateau

The National Museum, Jos, Plateau State was agog Monday as various ethnic nationalities gathered to show-case their cultural heritage during the 2014 World Museum Day.
The Curator of the museum, Annah Dunkrah, in her welcome address expressed happiness over the large turned out.
Dunkrah appealed to the state government to partner the National Museum to create ways of fostering unity among the diverse groups in the state.
She said the museum in Jos has assumed a position of confluence of culture and heritage display for museums all over the world.
She noted that this year’s International Museum Day, which has the theme: “Museum collections make connections,” was shifted from Sunday to Monday due church activities.
Stressing that the theme is apt because a museum cannot exist without its collections of the heritage, stressing that the collections create a symbiotic relationship between it source and the museum.
Dumbrah commended the communities that have collections or structures in the museum and encouraged those cultures that are yet to come up with theirs to as a matter of urgency deposit their cultural heritage for safe keeping and preservation for the future of the younger generation.
In a goodwill message sent in by the Director General of the National Museum Commission, Mallam Yusuf Abdulahi Usman, he said collection, researching and exhibiting are aimed of preserving important historical relics, which helps communication in modern day language.
According to Usman, museums are constantly facing challenges that bring cultures to consider the execution of their traditional mission of conservation and protection of cultural goods within new strategies so as to attract more visitor and ensure accessibility to collections.
Usman urged the traditional society to revamp the method of preservation of different collection of communities where museum is been sited for the contact of general public.
Plateau State Commissioner for Tourism and Culture, Hon. Abraham Yiljap, also solicited the cooperation and goodwill in the task of promoting abandoned tourists sites in the state.
Yiljap said the Plateau State Government will continue to focus on the area of peace building amongst the ethnic nationalities.