Ouidah Museum of History

Ouidah Museum is a historical museum housed inside the former Portuguese Fort São João Baptista de Ajudá, built in 1721. Established as a museum in 1967, it presents around 700 objects covering Ouidah’s archaeology, the Xwéda and Dahomey kingdoms, the transatlantic slave trade, Vodun traditions and cultural links between Benin and the Americas.