Architecture & Built Heritage

How effective is your museum’s website? Does it reflect your identity as an organisation? Does it appeal to your visitors and showcase the collection?

How effective is your museum’s website? Does it reflect your identity as an organisation? Does it appeal to your visitors and showcase the collection?

In the Happy City of Ayetoro, the water was not an obstacle but a way of life. Homes were built on stilts, rising gracefully above the tide, with reflections shimmering in the lagoon below. But what gave these houses their true sense of belonging were…

At the centre of Ayetoro, beyond the wooden homes on stilts and the bridges over water, stood a building that carried more weight than its timber walls suggested: the Community Hall. Unlike the Power House that gave light or the canals that gave passage, the…

How effective is your museum’s website? Does it reflect your identity as an organisation? Does it appeal to your visitors and showcase the collection?

In 1959, the people of Ayetoro achieved what few rural communities in Nigeria had dared to imagine. With no wealthy benefactors, no government engineers, and no foreign contractors, they built their own Power House — a structure that came to symbolise not only light, but…

In the story of Ayetoro, few achievements stand out as boldly as the construction of the seven-mile canal connecting the Happy City to the Mahin Lagoon. Dug by hand in the 1950s, this canal was not merely an engineering feat—it was a living testimony to…

When the first settlers of Ayetoro arrived on the Ondo coast in 1947, they were confronted with both opportunity and challenge. The vast Atlantic Ocean stretched endlessly before them, offering fish and trade routes, while the swampy, sandy terrain beneath their feet posed a serious…