South Omo Research Centre Museum, Southern Nations, Nationalities, and People's Region, Ethiopia
4.5 (108 reviews) Spent Ranking #2 in Jinka Speciality Museums
Excellent small Museum, essential viewing
This small ethnographic museum exhibits the material culture of the various ethnicities living in and around Ethiopia's Omo Valley. Each differing culture is examined and explained through its bodily adornment , domestic objects, musical instruments and ritual artefacts. This is a pleasant and compact museum and essential viewing for anyone traveling in the area as it explains and clarifies much of what can be easily seen but which otherwise remains largely unexplained. There is also a small shop selling local art and artefacts and some books produced by the anthropological research centre which runs the museum. The shop also sells printed pamphlets which includes basic vocabulary for some of the local languages, which may make meeting the locals a more pleasant experience for all involved.
Address
, Jinka, Ethiopia.
Mobile
Website
http://www.uni-mainz.de/Organisationen/SORC/content/section/9/51/
Current local date and time now
Monday, May 13, 2024, 16:20
User Ratings
4.5 based on (108 reviews)
Reviews
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4Magicworks 5:00 PM Feb 17, 2012
Museum
Museum was very informative and well done. Fairly new set on a hill overlooking Jinka. Access road was washed out in certain parts.
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4Solayke Anwar 5:00 PM Feb 10, 2018
A good place to start as an Omo Valley Tribes gate
This is a good place to start your Omo Valley Tours from if you begin from Jinka to discover the untouched and unique Omo Valley tribal communities. It has a collection of the most of the locally usable items by the tribes in a display area with some written explanations. There is a trained local guide from the Ari tribe settled permanently on the Plateau lands surrounding the lower Omo Valley zonal Administrative town of Jinka where the Research Center is located. You can access it either by walking for 15 minutes from the old airfield (city center now), serving as an open graze land and a parking spot currently on the East direction using the main paved Asphalt road up the Plateau or by driving up to the compound. You will find several research papers on cultural Anthropology interests up on request. The work of many dedicated researchers mainly from Western Europe universities in cooperation with Addis Ababa University, most researchers are from Germany. It is open from 8:00am to 5:00 pm - Monday to Sunday. Closed only on national holidays. I highly recommend a half day visit to this destination for a complete and better understanding of the Omo Valley Tribal communities deep village daily life activities to the utmost. Enjoy your visit!
