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    “An Assessment of the Ethnographic Museum of Wollega”
    (Addis Ababa University, 2020-11) Alemayehu, Solomon; Gobezie (PhD), Mengistu
    An Assessment of the Ethnographic Museum of Wollega Several researches have been conducted on the museums of Ethiopia. Research on the Wollega Museum, the subject under study is very minimal. Wollega Museum has not been touched adequately by researchers. Since museum is vital human treasure in all countries in the 21st century, the status of museums should be adequately evaluated; whether they meets national as well as internationally set standards. In the case of Ethiopia, concerns to the cultural institutions in general and to the museums in particular has given less attention in government structures as compared to other public institutions. Museums have a real power to teach the society about everything of the past and also create a link between the past and the present. Everybody can contemplate and think to put her/his history in the museum where every cultures and identities displayed and communicates. Based on these and other issues regarding the museum under study, the researcher has set an objective on the identified problems that initiated him for the study. The overall objective of this study is to assess the general status of Wollega Museum. The assessment has been made on overall of the museum‟s category of collection, documentation, conservation, exhibition and its management and also the museum standard. It also aims at exploring the challenges and opportunities of the museum under study and suggesting possible solutions to the identified gaps. Qualitative research method has been applied to address the objectives of the research. Data collecting techniques and tools are those appropriate to the qualitative research method such as, interview and observation are applied as the basic methods of data collecting tools. The collected data has been analyzed and interpreted to address the objective of the study. After all the data has been interpreted recommendations has been made to suggest possible solutions based on the findings. The key findings are: 1) The museum has meet the standard of museum establishment proclamation criteria, established according to the legislation of the Ethiopian Museums, but the Wollega Museum has not given attention on the administrative part of the museum. 2) The museum by its collection is not only an ethnography museum, it seems the general museum and its rank is on the 1st level. But, due to mal administration of the local authority, it is below the standards set for the museum in terms of management and professional personnels. As a result, recommendations for possible solutions has been forwarded for the concerning body.