Museums now centre for promoting sustainable development – Director

Museums are no longer places where ancient remains are kept but an institution for discovery and promotion of sustainable development, Mr Alex K. Okpei, Volta Regional Director of the Museums and Monuments Board has noted.

He was speaking at the regional celebration of International Museums Day in Ho on the theme: “Museums in a Changing World. New Challenges, New Inspirations.”

Mr Okpei observed that as the world changed with new technologies, museums across the world were better placed for people to study the past and look into the future.

He explained that the future could only be built on the past and urged policy makers to promote the work of the Board for sustainable development.

“Our work inspires people and as they are inspired, they find new ways of doing things in a sustainable way that bring development,” Mr Okpei said.

He asked the public to visit the museums regularly for inspiration.

At a brief symposium, officials from the Association for Sustainable Rural Development, a non-governmental organisation demonstrated new ways in which cassava, dubbed: “White gold,” could be used.

Home Economics students from Wallahs Academy, a private Senior High School in Ho showed how cassava flour could be used to prepare banku and variety of foods.

Series of film shows and inauguration of “Friends of the Museum” are some of the activities lined up to mark the celebration in the region.

Source: GNA