Qualla: Liberian National Museum https://qualla.com/liberian-national-museum en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:17 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/e/c/0/7/liberian-national-museum-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Liberian National Museum https://qualla.com/liberian-national-museum Liberian National Museum: Introduction https://qualla.com/liberian-national-museum/ Photo credit Jforest59, CC BY-SA 4.0. Of the roughly five thousand artifacts that once filled its galleries, fewer than one hundred survive. The National Museum of Liberia, tucked inside the old Supreme Court building in downtown Monrovia, tells the story of a country through what it managed to keep and what it lost. A 250-year-old dining table, gifted by Queen Victoria to Liberia's first president, Joseph Jenkins Roberts, still stands among the remaining pieces. That a single piece of furniture outlasted fourteen years of civil war says something about luck, about the devotion of the people who hid it, and about how much else was not so fortunate.

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]]> Fri, 06 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/e/c/0/7/liberian-national-museum-wp/ec07-liberian-national-museum-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Liberian National Museum: A Nation's Memory, Relocated https://qualla.com/liberian-national-museum/ Photo credit Jforest59, CC BY-SA 4.0. The museum has never stayed in one place for long. Established in 1958 under President William V.S. Tubman, it was first housed in the old Executive Mansion on Ashmun Street, partly funded by UNESCO. In 1972, it moved to Providence Island, the small landmass in the Mesurado River...

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]]> Fri, 06 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/e/c/0/7/liberian-national-museum-wp/ec07-liberian-national-museum-a-nations-memory-relocated.mp3 0:06 2 full Liberian National Museum: Three Floors of Heritage https://qualla.com/liberian-national-museum/ Photo credit Jforest59, CC BY-SA 4.0. The ground floor holds the histographical gallery: presidential papers, private documents, and photographs of Liberia's heads of state. The nation's first flag, dating to August 1847, when Liberia declared independence, hangs here alongside postage stamps and pages from the Liber...

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]]> Fri, 06 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/e/c/0/7/liberian-national-museum-wp/ec07-liberian-national-museum-three-floors-of-heritage.mp3 0:06 3 full Liberian National Museum: What Fourteen Years Took Away https://qualla.com/liberian-national-museum/ Photo credit Jforest59, CC BY-SA 4.0. The First Liberian Civil War began in 1989. The second followed in 1999. Together, they consumed fourteen years and hollowed out the museum's collection. According to director Caesar Harris, approximately five thousand artifacts were looted. Fighters and fleeing civilians sold pi...

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]]> Fri, 06 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/e/c/0/7/liberian-national-museum-wp/ec07-liberian-national-museum-what-fourteen-years-took-away.mp3 0:06 4 full Liberian National Museum: Surviving as Evidence https://qualla.com/liberian-national-museum/ Photo credit Jforest59, CC BY-SA 4.0. The museum today is as much about absence as presence. Gaps in the collection serve as a kind of testimony, documenting what the wars cost Liberia's cultural memory. But the institution has also turned the conflict itself into an exhibit. Items recovered from the war years now si...

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