Luanda — The National Museum of Anthropology will promote next Friday (May 18) a special guided visit to the institution, designed to divulge to the population the history and national culture, through the museological material there exhibited.

The activity is part of an agenda elaborated by the Ministry of Culture (Mincult) in the framework of the International Museum Day, to be marked on May 18.

According to a programme of Mincult made available to ANGOP this Tuesday, the guided visit will start at 09am and will end by 01pm.

Américo Kunonoka, head of the institution, affirmed in 2006 that to better satisfy the public the museum's management board wished to enrol more staffs with higher education, since the three existing and the eight with secondary education have not been able to follow up the growing number of students that visit the institution.

This scientific, cultural and educational institution is specialised on collecting, researching, preserving, re-valuing and divulging the cultural heritage under its charge, preserving them for future generations.

Founded on 13 November 1976, through the Decree 80/76 of the Cabinet Council, the Anthropology Museum has national ethnographic objects It also has a large number of materials from some African countries.