Top rated Museums in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania to elevate your visit (Updated March, 2024)

Top rated Museums in Dar es Salaam

Experience the best that Dar es Salaam has to offer with our curated list of top-rated places. Sorted by average review scores from venues boasting over 30 reviews, these establishments promise exceptional quality and experiences to elevate your visit in the city. This list contains 17 places from Museum category.

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Makumbusho/ Village Museum, Mikocheni

Museum

👍👍 A PLACE YOU MUST VISIT IN DAR ES SALAAM!! It's free to entry, even for foreigners, because there's no guy to charge your entrance fee. It's worthwhile to visit if you're a tourist, in here you can know traditional Tanzanian life & houses without going to countryside. And you can also watch some loca...

4.40 (2K reviews) (~13.66 km from centre)

Old Slave Market/Anglican Cathedral

Museum

👍👍 It was good excursion about Zanzibar history of slavery and role of this place. It was very interesting to visit and look basement, where the slaves had been keeped before sold.

4.40 (458 reviews) (~69.4 km from centre)

Catholic Historic Museum

Museum

👍👍 Really amazing historical site with plenty to see and touch maybe. Had a great time with my family and learned a lot from a local tour guide. It’s very cheap to visit so I highly recommend it. Also very easy road to access it.. though it has no disability access points in this area.

4.40 (268 reviews) (~45.99 km from centre)

Old Arab Fort of Bagamoyo

Museum

🫤 The fort itself is impressive but yoy have to pay 20,000 shillings and they tell you the fee includes entrance to some different attractions which are completely free (German boma). Generally staff was very nice but didnt have actual extensive knowledge and you can basically get the same experience...

4.40 (79 reviews) (~44.33 km from centre)

The Caravan Serai

Museum

👍 The museum is located about 5 minutes walk from the bus station. It exhibits the history of ivory and slave trade in Bagamoyo with some artefacts and designs.

4.30 (68 reviews) (~44.58 km from centre)

Buza machimbo

Museum

4.30 (32 reviews) (~16.74 km from centre)

Old German Boma

Museum

👍 Nice building. Abandoned but interesting architecture. It’s mandatory to pay at the office (10.000 tzs)and if you don’t know it you may think someone is trying to fool you. Be careful at night as it may not be the safest place to hang. Some guides offer us a complete bagamoyo tour for 20000/ person....

4.20 (181 reviews) (~44.55 km from centre)

URITHI Tanga Museum

Museum

👍👍 Great place to start your visit to Tanga. Although under renovation, the team did a great job to share te history of the holding, that of Tanga and Tanzania in General. The view of the port and sea is amazing and not far from the fish market (best time is around 4pm to visit the fish market). Kud...

4.20 (118 reviews) (~190.63 km from centre)

Chilunga Cultural Tourism

Museum

👍👍 very nice people, helpful and polite with good english, the 3 day tour in the mountains was excellent and the choma village people are traditional but welcoming even to strangers as i am.

4.20 (99 reviews) (~160.51 km from centre)

Department of Archaeology and Heritage

Museum

👍👍 It's a department in the university of Dar-es-salaam(The Hill Campus/J.K Nyerere campus)...it offers degrees,phds ; in Archaeology:in geography,in history, and heritage studies..very pleasurable to be there!!!

4.20 (84 reviews) (~8.59 km from centre)

Pangani Coast Cultural Tourism

Museum

4.20 (39 reviews) (~151.96 km from centre)

CHAMAZI DOVYA

Museum

👍👍 Proud to be a resident of CHAMAZI

4.20 (36 reviews) (~20.74 km from centre)

Nungwi Marine Turtles Mnarani

Museum

😠 I saw an anaconda snake in a small pen here. Anacondas are found on the mainland not Zanzibar. A jungle rat was also in the pen. A man asked me if I wanted to see the snake eat it. I declined the offer. There were baby turtles kept in small sand buckets as well. This is not what it seems. It is for...

4.10 (132 reviews) (~119.61 km from centre)

MWANAGATI STAND YA BAJAJI

Museum

👍👍 ZZZ wa5

4.10 (117 reviews) (~17.7 km from centre)

Freddie Mercury Museum

Museum

😐 It's nice to know that Freddie Mercury spent a few moments of his life in Zanzibar in Stone Town, but do you really need to visit this museum to know? Not necessarily… for me it is just a place that pretends to be the place where Freddie grew up (we don't really know which building he grew up in) a...

4.00 (475 reviews) (~69.4 km from centre)

Bagamoyo Old Market And Arts Market

Market

👍👍 Perfect place to get caravan slave trade history.

4.00 (85 reviews) (~44.75 km from centre)

Mapinga Snake Park

Museum

👍👍 Nice place

4.00 (36 reviews) (~23.75 km from centre)

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Top rated Museums in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania