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This seminar suggests that the recent interest in modern museums in the palaces of the western Grassfields is obscurely associated with the need to re-traditionalize the palaces and, more particularly, to address the multiple problems plaguing the traditional palace museums or royal treasuries. The seminar demonstrates that the modern museum unlike the royal treasuries are significant, partly because they constitute a democratic space within the palace, and partly because they are associated with, and, they articulate the irony of change and continuity. The seminar is based on findings from a survey conducted in some palaces and the newly created museums, as well as the relevant literature on museums in Cameroon.