The Alexandre Sènou Adandé Ethnographic Museum is a museum in Porto-Novo, Benin. It was established in 1957 by the Dahomey Institute. It is operated by Alexandre Sènou Adandé, a noted ethnologist, who was chief archivist and librarian at the Institut Fondamental d'Afrique Noire of Dakar from 1948 to 1960. Alexandre Sènou Adandé Ethnographic Museum features wonderful Yoruba masks and King Toffa's Palace gives you a taste of how African royalty lived.  Housed in a colonial mansion built in 1922, the museum's rich collection of artifacts, including masks, statuettes, ritual objects, and armaments, illustrate the wide variety of cultures and traditions existing in Benin

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