点评:Musee Da Silva is the largest private museum in Porto-Novo. It is owned by Urbain Kareem Da Silva who started this museum on Nov 2nd, 1998.
The museum spreads across two floors, the ground floor of the main house displays photographs of the Da Silva family and its descendants, detailing their experiences as freed returnee slaves from Brazil.
While at the first entrance of the museum, you would find a hall that has all information about Martin Luther king. It is a complete gallery of Martin Luther king’s pictures and stories. It was put in place just to honour him as a great leader and one of the great figures who fought against racial discrimination in America, his life stories, quotes, photos, and transcripts of speeches he made are found at the museum.
The museum also houses so e items and personal effects of the owner and custodian Urbain Kareem Da Silva and of his family members plus those he acquired by purchase and auction while living in the US ranging from old telephones, typewriters, home theatres, speakers, radios, sewing machines, television of different generations. There are also collections of motorcycles from the 1960s to the present day, as well as vintage cars like 1980s Rolls-Royce and a couple of 1950s Citroen in the museum.
翻译:达席尔瓦博物馆是波多诺伏最大的私人博物馆。它由 Urbain Kareem Da Silva 所有,他于 1998 年 11 月 2 日创办了这个博物馆。
博物馆分布在两层楼,主楼的底层展示了达席尔瓦家族及其后代的照片,详细描述了他们作为从巴西获释的海归奴隶的经历。
在博物馆的第一个入口处,你会发现一个大厅,里面有关于马丁路德金的所有信息。这是一个完整的马丁·路德·金的图片和故事画廊。它的设立只是为了纪念他作为一位伟大的领袖和在美国与种族歧视作斗争的伟大人物之一,他的生平事迹、名言、照片和他发表的演讲稿都可以在博物馆找到。
博物馆还收藏了所有者和保管人乌尔班·卡里姆·达席尔瓦 (Urbain Kareem Da Silva) 及其家人的一些物品和个人物品,以及他在美国居住期间通过购买和拍卖获得的物品,包括旧电话、打字机、家庭影院、扬声器、收音机,缝纫机,不同世代的电视。博物馆里还有 1960 年代至今的摩托车收藏品,以及 1980 年代的劳斯莱斯和几辆 1950 年代的雪铁龙等老爷车。