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Museum of Ouadane

Coordinates: 20°55′N 11°37′W / 20.917°N 11.617°W / 20.917; -11.617
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Museum of Ouadane
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LocationOuadane, Mauritania
Coordinates20°55′N 11°37′W / 20.917°N 11.617°W / 20.917; -11.617
Typelocal museum
CollectionsLithic tools, sherds, Arabic manuscripts

The Museum of Ouadane is a local museum in Ouadane, Mauritania. It is located in the old town of the World Heritage Site of Ouadane in a building called Maison des Armes.[1]

Cylinder-shaped rock gongs and quern-stones

The collections of the museum

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Its collections present elements from the Neolithic to the colonial period, with lithic materials, ceramics, Arabic manuscripts and maps, and rockets fired at Ouadane during the Western Sahara conflict as well as assorted ethnographic odds and ends.[2]

The museum is maintained by the Fondation Abidine Sidi pour la culture, le savoir et la protection du patrimoine Ouadane. At this time the museum is in disarray.

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