Management of the Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Park has announced that the facility is officially open to the general public.
However, Ghanaians and foreigners will pay more for visiting the facility this time around.
Non-Ghanaian adults will pay GH¢100 to visit the park while Ghanaian adults will pay GH¢25.
Tertiary students who are non-Ghanaians will pay GH¢60 while Ghanaian tertiary students will pay GH¢15. School children are to pay GH¢5 before entering.
Acting Director of the Park, Edward Quao says they need money to keep the place running.
“We have new facilities in the Park, and we need money to maintain them and so if we don’t put these measures in place, it will be really difficult for us to maintain them.”
There are new rates for event organisers as well.
President Akufo-Addo on Tuesday, July 4, 2023, commissioned the renovated and modernised Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Park, a year after he cut the sod for the commencement of work on the project.
The Park, which was built in 1991 and opened to the public in 1992, in the time of the 1st President of the 4th Republic, His Excellency the late Jerry John Rawlings, had not seen any renovation since then, resulting in significant deterioration of the edifice.
According to the President, the redeveloped Park will attract some one million domestic and international tourists annually.
“The Park now has facilities including a presidential library, receptive facility, mini-amphitheater, restaurant, freedom wall, and a digitalised payment and access system. The mausoleum has also been fully refurbished, with the tombstone upgraded, and the museum expanded with an audiovisual tunnel. There is also an upgraded VVIP lounge, expanded recreational area, a modernized gift shop, and a fountain area with synchronised audiovisuals, the first of its kind in West Africa,” he said.