Museum of Art and Archeology

Managed by the University of Antananarivo's Institute of Civilization, the Museum of Art and Archaeology is to be found within central Antananarivo's Isoraka neighbourhood. Set up in 1970 primarily as a research institute but also as a means of promoting Madagascar's cultural history, this attraction has grown greatly in stature over the years, becoming a major repository of some 7,000 artefacts relating to the country's archaeology and art. Particular highlights at the Musee de l'Art et de l'Archeologie, as it is known locally, include a collection of artefacts once used by sorcerers, as well as some old musical instruments and intriguing funerary sculptures (aloalo).