The city of Senghor's négritude and of Africa's oldest biennial, Dak'Art.
A round museum inspired by the impluvium houses of Casamance, opened in 2018 to tell the history of Africa and its diasporas from Africa's point of view.
The IFAN museum, founded in 1936, with masks, textiles and sculpture from across West Africa. It hosted the first World Festival of Negro Arts in 1966.
Around fifty studios built for the 2000s generation of Senegalese artists, by the road to the airport. You walk in, knock, and talk.
The independent art centre founded in 2011 by Koyo Kouoh, who conceived the 2026 Venice Biennale before her death in 2025. Exhibitions, a library and a residency.
Rooms, ruins and curiosities: the city's other museum.
A car-free island of ochre and pink colonial houses, with the Maison des Esclaves, a memorial to the Atlantic slave trade, and artists' studios in the old batteries at the top.
A 49-metre bronze family on a volcanic hill, built by a North Korean company in 2010. Controversial, enormous, and part of the city's skyline now.
A round iron-and-glass market hall of 1910, destroyed by fire in 1993 and rebuilt exactly as it was. Flowers, fish and fabric under the colonial ironwork.
At the end of the afternoon, painted wooden pirogues come in on the beach to land the catch, beside the city's craft village.
The old colonial capital, about four hours north.
Musée Théodore Monod at opening → Musée des Civilisations noires → lunch on the Plateau → afternoon ferry to Gorée → back for dinner by the sea at Ngor.