The future of the museum, rooted in our past.
The DAP Experience Centre brings the culture of a nation — its tribes, its peoples and its stories — together under one roof.
DAP Experience Centre is unique in bringing together, under one roof, the culture of the nation — spanning tribes and peoples. No other museum holds collections of the same depth and breadth, beauty and significance.
Its objects let us explore the extraordinary diversity of human cultures — from small communities to vast empires — and discover the many forms human beings have given to every aspect of life, and how closely they are all interconnected.
Preserve the nation’s heritage, and share it widely.
We collect, conserve and present the material culture of Nigeria’s peoples — making the nation’s heritage accessible to everyone who walks through our doors, and ensuring it endures for the generations still to come.
A nation that knows its own story.
We imagine a Centre where every visitor — child or scholar, neighbour or traveller — finds something of themselves in the shared past, and leaves with a deeper sense of where they belong.
“Every object here is a sentence in a longer story — of the hands that made it, and the people who kept it.”
Browse thousands of pieces from across Nigeria’s regions — many available as fine prints and editions in our shop.
History of the states
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A team of dynamic, highly qualified and skilled individuals with a desire to solve problems
Keep the Centre’s doors open.
Members visit free all year, get early access to new exhibitions, and help us preserve Nigeria’s heritage for the next generation.