The Scenes of Yesteryears (SOY) Museum was on Monday inaugurated at Gomoa Potsin within the Gomoa East District of the Central Area with a name on Ghanaians to spend money on the tourism sector so as to promote financial progress.
The SOY Museum is a non-public facility established to assist professionalmote and protect the Ghanaian cultural heritage.
The Chief Government Officer (CEO) of SOY Museum, Dr Akua Owusuaa Amartey, mentioned the alternatives within the tourism sector had not been totally explored and invested.
The museum has in it sculptures designed and organized to inform the story of how Ghanaians lived their day by day lives previously, from dawn to sundown, in addition to the historical past of the slave commerce.
“With regards to tourism, I see it as a virgin space. We now have not touched something, and there may be room for anybody who needs to spend money on it. Once we
discuss tourism, we aren’t solely speaking about simply constructing motels and internet hosting individuals, however it goes past that,” Dr Amartey defined.
Nevertheless, she lamented concerning the difficulties people who needed to spend money on the sector undergo as recounted some initiatives akin to non-public museum initiatives that had stalled attributable to lack of funds and help from the federal government.
“In the event you take out the forts and castles that we have now doted alongside the coast and a few few waterfalls, we don’t have a lot to speak about in the case of web site points of interest. I do know we have now a couple of non-public museums, of which a few of them have stalled. This tells you the way troublesome it’s to establish issues in Ghana,” Dr (Mrs) Amartey said.
She, due to this fact, urged the government by the Ministry of Tourism, Tradition, and Inventive Arts and the Ghana Tourism Authority (GTA) to help individuals who have been able to spend money on the sector.
Dr Amartey, who can also be a retiring workers of the Meals and Drug Authority (FDA), additionally indicated that the institution of the SOY museum would assist create job alternatives for the individuals on the Gomoa Potsin group, particularly the youth, as many can be employed as tour guides, security personnel, and cleaners.
She expressed gratitude to the standard leaders of the group for offering her with the land to ascertain the museum, in addition to household and associates who had supported her.
Dr Amartey thanked the United Nations Instructional, Scientific, and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) for providing her with related paperwork to overview so as to achieve concepts for the institution of the museum and Adansi Journey and Tour, for its willingness to associate with SOY museum in its operations.
FROM BENJAMIN ARCTON-TETTEY, GOMOA
