da Silva Museum

The Best privately Owned Museum I have visited so far

Musee Da Silva is the largest private museum in Porto-Novo. It is owned by Urbain Kareem Da Silva who started this museum on Nov 2nd, 1998. The museum spreads across two floors, the ground floor of...

Decent exhibit

A good collection of photos and the old house where da Silva family lived was fairly well maintained. We had a good guide which made the visit more thorough. The collection of old cars was interesting...

bad guide and not interesting

a rich man's collection - half of the place is photocopies of old newspaper articles in frames - being called historic documents. The owner's private car and motorcycle collection was pretty interesti...

A family in love with heritage

This museum will blow your mind because of it's numerous collections. The Da Silver family is a very important family in Benin republic and when you visit their museum, you will learn about the famil...

Tired private museum

Perhaps the best part are the murals outside the museum depicting slavery. The museum was set up by a returning wealthy Beninois, built around his house. There is a large meeting hall celebrating the ...