Heritage

The Entoto St. Mary Museum, at 3,200 meters above sea level, harbors articles of historical significance (crowns, drum of the march to the march to the battle of Adwa, ceremonial dresses of Emperor Menelik and Empress Taitu etc…). The National Museum of Ethiopia is also endowed with the earliest hominid skeletons of Lucy (3.4 million years) and Ramidus (4.4 million years old), as well as jewelry, costumes, paintings and sculptures. Ethnographic Museum of the Institute of Ethiopian Studies is another tourist attraction. The Zoological Natural History Museum displays, from Ethiopia's wild life wealth, the sizable proportion of which are endemic species of rodents, bats, carnivores, primates, birds, snakes, lizards, amphibians, fishes and invertebrates.

The city also presents to its visitor's church museums with their fascinating wall paintings and remains of kings in the underground crypt. Century old stamps in the Ethiopian Postal Museum, photographs depicting the development of the city (at Addis Ababa Museum), and parks, where lions and cubs, monkeys and baboons are caged are some of the spots to visitors.