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National Museum of Tanzania

Jan 21 2020

This afternoon the students visited the National Museum of Tanzania (forgive the Wikipedia link; they don’t have their own website).  We casually roamed the exhibits to learn about the history of Tanzania, along with other details regarding archaeological findings related to the evolution of humans and animals.  There were also incredible artistic representations of this history.

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