Sultan's Palace Museum

The Sultan’s Palace Museum, or Beit al-Sahel, is a large white building with castellated battlements positioned directly along the seafront on Mizingani Road. It occupies the site of an earlier palace destroyed during the Anglo-Zanzibar War of eighteen ninety-six. Built in the late nineteenth century to house the sultan’s family, it eventually became the official royal residence in nineteen eleven. Following the nineteen sixty-four revolution, when the last sultan was overthrown, the building served as government offices before opening as a museum in nineteen ninety-four to display the history of the Zanzibar Sultanate.