69 city guides · 3-day culture itineraries
3-day city guides focused on museums, galleries, performing arts and local creative scenes.
Commercial galleries in Wuse 2, the National Gallery's modernist canon, Nike Art Gallery's textile f…
Artist-run compounds in Nungua, kente looms in Osu, and Ghana's national stage — the working side of…
Palace museums, artist-run galleries, azmari houses and Afewerk Tekle's stained glass, from the Ento…
Berber silver, Souss Valley heritage museums, brutalist reconstruction architecture and the Amazigh …
Ptolemaic catacombs, an opera house built for khedives, Cavafy's Greek quarter and the independent a…
Africa's largest fine-art museum, a neo-Moorish department store turned contemporary gallery, an 185…
Royal treasures in a pink palace, a half-million-image photo archive, open-air theatre below the rid…
Rationalist cinemas, Orthodox icon painting and Tigrinya theatre in the world's most complete Modern…
Ethiopian church mural cycles, the Bahir Dar University art faculty, azmari bet improvised song and …
Photography archives, dyers' courtyards, a south-bank culture palace and the rock shelters above the…
Hellenistic excavations, Italian colonial architecture, manuscript libraries and the Andalusian musi…
A free national art museum, two republican parliaments, an opera house and the Waaihoek church where…
Basilica architecture, the national museum's Téké funerary art, Poto-Poto's painting school and the …
Islamic-era minarets, Coptic frescoes, downtown gallery basements and a Sufi tanoura night — the Cai…
Sculpture gardens in Tokai, the Sir Lowry Road gallery mile, a cathedral crypt jazz club and Langa's…
Private museums, a Zaha Hadid opera house, industrial art squats and the 1930s cinemas that still se…
Andalusian refugee architecture, the Kasbah ethnographic collections, women's weaving cooperatives a…
Artist barracks on the VDN, a black-civilisations museum Senghor imagined in 1966, and national-thea…
Artist collectives in Mikocheni, coral-rag colonial architecture on Sokoine Drive, live ngoma drummi…
German railway arcades, Tanzania's largest mosque, university ngoma troupes and the pottery women of…
Colonial Bonanjo architecture, Cameroon's oldest museum collections, artist studios in Bonendale and…
KwaZulu-Natal's art museums, the Playhouse stage, Art Deco streetscapes and township studios, mapped…
Restored palace museums, working zellige and copper ateliers, Sufi and Arab-Andalusian music nights,…
Studio visits at Thapong, printmaking in Mochudi, jazz nights at Maitisong and the sandstone kgotla …
Grand Egyptian Museum galleries, Harraniya tapestry looms, Fustat pottery kilns and Cairo Opera Hous…
Independent galleries, termite-cooled architecture, the Shona stone carving tradition and Harare's o…
Ottoman-revival mosques, a Coptic monastery church, sand-bottle artisans and Nubian drumming — the c…
Federal museum bronzes, Africa's first skyscraper, campus theatre and the indigo-cloth market that s…
Blue-chip galleries in Rosebank, Brutalist and Art Deco skyline walks, opera at the Joburg Theatre a…
Contemporary galleries, Buganda royal architecture and live Ugandan dance across the seven hills.…
Museums in colonial-era mud-brick halls, Dala Hill's Hausa music circles, Kofar Ruwa metalworkers an…
Modernist galleries in Bourri, colonial brick on Nile Avenue, Omdurman's theatre and silver souq, an…
Kuba masks at the Musée National, a 200-piece Kimbanguist orchestra, Art Deco on the Boulevard, and …
Weaving villages, brass casters, university museums and Ghana's oldest art school — the living works…
Benin bronzes on Onikan, Fela's shrine in Ikeja, gallery basements in Ikoyi and a Sunday of live hig…
Reliquary figures at the national museum, live rumba and Bwiti harp in Nombakélé, and the concrete t…
Iron palaces and slave-trade chapels, the National Anthropology Museum's Chokwe masks, semba danceha…
Contemporary Congolese painting, Art Deco mining architecture and live rumba in the copper capital o…
Zambia's copper-modernist landmarks, its contemporary art circuit and the compound theatre companies…
West-bank artist villages, Hassan Fathy's endangered architecture, a 1907 photography studio and fre…
Coral-rag ruins, hand-carved Swahili doors, Giriama drum troupes and the workshops where Malindi's k…
Malangatana murals, Núcleo de Arte studios, live marrabenta at Núcleo and the sculpture workshops of…
Museum courtyards, Berber textiles, Gnaoua trance nights and the Art Deco villas of Guéliz, mapped a…
Rock-cut Roman temples, Ababda tribal music, Islamic-revival marina architecture and the desert-mine…
Swahili-Arab merchant architecture, salvaged museum treasures and the poets, painters and oud player…
Colonial courtrooms turned galleries, coral-stone mosques and marble temples, artisan cooperatives a…
Islamic art in the ribat towers, open-air malouf under the ramparts, and the weaving and pottery wor…
Chad's capital through its sculptors, griot musicians, Sudano-Sahelian mosques and the francophone c…
Contemporary galleries in Rosslyn, Kenyan literature and jazz in the CBD, and the studio-and-market …
Artisan galleries, Sahel cinema, Chinguetti manuscript collections and the ardin-and-tidinit music o…
Spanish fortresses, a gilded French opera house, Algeria's finest modern art museum and the neighbou…
Lost-wax bronze foundries, the Village Artisanal ateliers, the granite sculptors of Laongo and the C…
Victorian galleries in St George's Park, Africa's oldest working theatre, and the forced-removal sto…
Rivers State's museum collections, colonial waterfront architecture, university theatre and the stud…
Three days through the UNESCO immigration depot, the 1822 Municipal Theatre, Chinatown's temples and…
Italianate churches, Art Deco trading houses, three war museums, and the lyre-driven folk music Port…
Coral-block colonial buildings, Beja swordsmiths and silversmiths, Sufi drumming and the displaced a…
Colonial townhouses on the clifftop grid, Cape Verde's state museums and galleries, and the batuku-a…
Modernist art museums, a bridge-gallery holding Mapungubwe gold, six-stage repertory theatre and the…
Hassan Tower, Chellah necropolis, the finest Moroccan contemporary art museum and the quietest medin…
Kasbah architecture museum, Roman mosaics from Thaenae, Borj Ennar exhibitions and the malouf stages…
Al Sahaba Mosque's Ottoman-Fatimid minarets, the Heavenly Cathedral's floor-to-ceiling biblical mura…
Villa museums, a working theatre in the Ville Nouvelle, Riffian textile collections and the cafés wh…
Carved cedar galleries in the medina, Fascist-era boulevards, contemporary galleries and the worksho…
Roman floors at the Bardo, a baron's music palace in Sidi Bou Said, and the ceramic zaouias and gall…
The world's largest Emily Carr collection, a 39-room sandstone castle, a church-turned-theatre and t…
National collections, contemporary galleries, Wilhelmine architecture and the live music, theatre an…
Benedictine mask collections on Mont Fébé, private Bastos museums, Mvolyé's mosaic basilica and late…
Contemporary galleries, taarab and ngoma rehearsals, Omani palace museums and the living workshops o…