Sierra Leone Museum, Sierra Leone

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The newly refurbished Sierra Leone Museum (Mon-Fri 10am-4pm; entry by donation) was, until 1929, a railway terminus ("Cotton Tree Station") at the foot of the "Hill railway" up to Wilberforce and Hill Station. The collections are emphatically worth a visit; this is Sierra LeoneÂ’s only museum. There arenÂ’t many visitors and youÂ’re likely to get a guided tour of some kind. The Ruiter stone replica takes pride of place in the museum. This 1664 rock graffito, scratched by bored Dutch sea captains during a lull in a military expedition against the English, was discovered in the course of drainage work on the waterfront in 1923. ItÂ’s the oldest archaeological evidence of a European presence on the peninsula.

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