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Sights

1 Jimma Museum B1

Sleeping

2 Central Jimma Hotel C3

3 Temky Pension D4

4 Wolde Aregaw & Family Hotel C4

Eating

5 Café Variety A1

Central Jimma Hotel (see 2)

6 Jimma Degitu Hotel B1

Wolde Aregaw & Family Hotel (see 4)

Shopping

7 Market B4

Sights
If you're a connoisseur of Italian Fascist architecture, take a peek at the cinema, post of-
fice, municipal buildings and some of the old hotels.

Jimma Museum
Offline map
( 0471-115881; admission Birr25; 9am-noon & 2-5pm) 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 favour-
ite 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 immedi-
ately behind the current building.

MUSEUM