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While the New Yam Festival is celebrated throughout Igboland, it holds particular significance in Igbo-Ukwu. The annual harvest festival for the town's most vital crop involves dancing, masquerading, various rituals, and of course feasts including many dishes containing yam.
National Museum, Igbo-Ukwu
A government-protected cultural center built to preserve the artistic heritage of the area. It showcases historical documentation, traditional wood carvings, ancestral monuments, and high-quality replicas of the famous 9th-century bronze artifacts (the original archaeological finds are conserved in the National Museum in Lagos and the British Museum).
Igbo Isaiah
The historic homestead compound where the legendary first cache of bronzes was accidentally unearthed in 1938. Local guides explain the structural layout of the historic well excavation and how it reshaped West African history.