Benin City makes New York Times Top 52 places to Visit in 2025 spotlighting Museum of West African Arts (MOWAA)

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Benin City, Edo State, Nigeria.

Published 12:30 PM ET, Wednesday January 8, 2025

Just when you thought we couldn’t possibly chuck another list of ‘where to go in 2025’ your way, yet another publication drops its roundup for the year ahead.

It kicks off with Jane Austen’s England (specifically, the southwest), ‘a pastoral area that salutes a literary legend’ and which this year will be celebrating the 250th anniversary of this icon’s birth. You can pay her old house a visit in Hampshire or dance the night away in proper Regency style at one of the balls at the Jane Austen Centre in Bath.

Elsewhere on the list is the Museum of West African Arts (MOWAA) in Benin City, Edo State, Nigeria, which boasts exceptional infrastructure and programs for the preservation, display, research, learning, and exchange in arts and culture in a world-class campus.

But there’s plenty more where that came from; check out the full list below.

These are the 52 places to go in 2025, according to the New York Times

  • Jane Austen’s England
  • Galapagos Islands
  • New York City’s Museums
  • Assam, India
  • ‘White Lotus’ Thailand
  • Greenland
  • Aix-en-Provence, France
  • Sun Valley, Idaho
  • Lumbini, Nepal
  • Sydney, Australia
  • Coimbra, Portugal
  • Angola
  • Hamburg, Germany
  • Nicaragua
  • The Dolomites, Italy
  • Ashville, North Carolina
  • Magdalena River, Colombia
  • Los Cabos, Mexico
  • Alishan, Taiwan
  • Flow Country, Scotland
  • Kristiansand, Norway
  • Bukhara, Uzbekistan
  • Lexington and Concorde, Massachusetts
  • Canfranc, Spain
  • Benin City, Nigeria
  • Amsterdam
  • New Orleans
  • Raja Ampat, Indonesia
  • Delphi, Greece
  • Toyama, Japan
  • French Basque Country
  • Kilifi, Kenya
  • British Virgin Islands
  • Lofoten Islands, Norway
  • East London
  • Stockholm Archipelago, Sweden
  • Kutaisi, Georgia
  • Osaka, Japan
  • Detroit
  • Trent-Severn Waterway, Ontario
  • Montserrat, Spain
  • Western Australia
  • Washington DC
  • Nangma Valley, Pakistan
  • Sicily Divide Cycle Route
  • Ollataytambo, Peru
  • Abu Dhabi
  • Huangshan, China
  • Milan
  • Bulgaria
  • Rotterdam, the Netherlands
  • Montserrat, the Caribbean

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