National History Museum

The idea of having a Natural History Museum in the University came up in 1971. The University launched an endowment fund way back in 1973; one of the four main objectives of the endowment was the establishment of a standard type repository for scientific material in the University.

In January, 1974, the idea of establishing a Natural History Museum and that which will be a leading natural history museum in the west coast of Africa was midwived this was to be an autonomous unit starting with the collection of the then zoology Department as a nucleus.