About the Museum

The Yaa Asantewaa Museum is a museum in Ejisu Municipal District in the Ashanti Region of Ghana. It was built to honor legendary Ashanti leader Yaa Asantewaa, who was the queen mother of Ejisu. The museum was established in 2000, to mark the centenary of the Yaa Asantewaa War. It aimed to recreate a typical Asante royal residence from ca. 1900. Located at her grave side in Besease, the hometown of Yaa Asantewaa, it gives off the modern feel of the days of the old through the memories of war.