🏛️ Cultural · Arusha

Arusha Cultural Heritage Centre

3 hours $25 per person Ages 5+
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What to Expect
  • Largest Tingatinga collection in Tanzania
  • Makonde master carvings
  • Maasai beadwork
  • Tanzanite
  • Zanzibar chests
  • cultural museum

The Arusha Cultural Heritage Centre is both a serious museum and a shopping destination — a sprawling complex of galleries housing Tanzania’s largest private collection of traditional and contemporary East African art and craft. The Tingatinga paintings — a Tanzanian painting style originating in Dar es Salaam in the 1960s, characterised by bright colours and animal subjects — are represented from original masters to contemporary practitioners. The Makonde carving gallery displays some of the most technically extraordinary wood sculptures produced anywhere in Africa. Maasai jewellery, Zanzibar chests, Tanzanite, and safari-quality clothing complete the collection.

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