Detention Cells (Fort Kumasi) through time

Kumasi 2016 4 photos of this spot

4 recent photographs taken at the same spot in Kumasi, spanning 2016. Have an older picture of it? Add it and start this spot's timeline.

Fort Kumasi, photographed in 2016, was rebuilt by the British in the early 1900s on the site of an earlier Asante stronghold destroyed during the Anglo-Ashanti wars. The fort today houses Ghana's Armed Forces Museum.

Fort Kumasi and Millitary Museum 2016 Fort Kumasi, photographed in 2016, was rebuilt by the British in the early 1900s on the site of an earlier Asante stronghold destroyed during the Anglo-Ashanti wars. The fort today houses Ghana's Armed Forces Museum.

Fort Kumasi and Millitary Museum 2016 A second 2016 view of Fort Kumasi in Ghana's Ashanti Region, reconstructed by British forces in the early twentieth century after earlier Anglo-Ashanti conflicts destroyed the original structure on the site.

Fort Kumasi and Millitary Museum 2016 This 2016 photograph shows another section of Fort Kumasi, now home to the Ghana Armed Forces Museum, which displays exhibits on the region's colonial-era military history and the earlier Anglo-Ashanti wars that shaped the fort's construction.

Detention Cells (Fort Kumasi) 2016 The detention cells at Fort Kumasi, pictured in 2016, recall the fort's later use as a British colonial-era prison, a chapter in the site's history that followed its reconstruction by British forces in the early twentieth century.