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On the joint initiative of the Ministry of Culture and Communication and the Projet d'appui au développement culturel du Bénin (PADCB), the School of African Heritage (EPA) welcomed a dozen heads of Beninese museums from May 29 to June 23 2000, for a course on museum documentation and inventories.

This one month course aimed at training ten museum curators and staff (Honmè museum, Alexandre Sènou Adandé ethnographic museum, Whydah Historical museum, Abomey Historical museum, Parakou museum, Natitingou museum and the Maison du Brésil museum), and staff from the Cultural heritage Division in museum inventories and documentation.

The specificity of this course was in the fact that subjects taught during the course were immediately put into operation in Beninese museums, because the second step of the programme consists in carrying out the inventory of all Beninese museums within 6 months, so as to have an exact overview of the national museums' collections. In that way, by 31 December 2000, the exact number of artefacts in the national collections will be available to museum professionals and researchers.

The teaching was ensured by an international team of eight African and Italian professionals.

The course was organised thanks to the financial contribution of the French Cooperation and the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs as part of the Abomey III Programme entrusted to the School of African Heritage (EPA).