Cape Coast Castle (Museum) is a fortification in Ghana.
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The first timber construction on the site was erected in 1653 for the
Swedish Africa Company and named
Carolusborg after King Charles X of Sweden
It was later on rebuilt in stone.In April 1663 the whole
Swedish Gold Coast was seized by the Danes, and integrated in the
Danish Gold Coast
In 1664 the Castle was conquered by the British and was extensively rebuilt by the
Committee of Merchants
(whose Governors administered the entire British colony) in the late 18th century. In 1844, it became the seat of the colonial Government of the British Gold Coast.
The Castle was built for the trade in timber and gold, later it was used in the trans- Atlantic slave trade.
The Castle, or Castle and Dungeon, to give it its official name, was first restored in the 1920s by the British Public Works Department. In 1957, when Ghana became independent, it passed under the care of the Ghana Museums and Monuments Board (GMMB).
In the early 1990s the building was restored by the Ghanaian Government, with funds from theUnited Nations Development Programme
(UNDP), USAID, theSmithsonian Institution and other NGOs.
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