Admission price to the Muuziyemii Jimmaa includes a guided tour in English of the seven small rooms that make up the museum. We don’t want to steal the guide’s thunder (such as it is), but our favourite pieces include a ceremonial throne that cost Birr146,000 to build but was only used by Haile Selassie for 20 minutes, and a royal portable toilet that looks like a frying pan with a hole in it. Other oddities include a poster with the entire Koran written on it in a script of almost microscopic proportions, and an Italian-made walking stick–cum-gun.
At the time of research a new home for the museum was under construction immediately behind the current building.
