Niger is a crossroads of civilizations where since millenia of the people of origins various converge and are juxtaposed. Its cultural richnesses lie for the essence in diversity of its population which counts more than 10 million inhabitants made up of haoussas, djermas, sonraïs, Tuaregs, peuls, toubous, kanouris and Arabic.

This ethnic diversity is characterized by two worlds which côtoient themselves, wandering and sedentary or stockbreeders and farmers with each one its cultural characteristics. Those are expressed in the everyday life at the time of periodic festivities as the salted cure, the wandering festivals like the guérouel, the sedentary hotoungo, biano, rejoicings as will wassa-kara it, the festival animist azna, the traditional fight, etc.

They also appear in the regional museums which gather all specificities natives of Niger on the level artisanal, artistic cultural, and historical. In this connection, the national museum of Niamey (the capital) is one of most beautiful of Africa thanks to its originality and its diversity. Indeed, it accomodates all the types of traditional habitats of Niger and the collections prehistoric, ethnographic, ornithological, faunal, of the rupestral statements of frescos of Aïr as well as musical instruments traditional and national costumes. The museums national of Niamey and regional constitute a kind of academy of the ages of Niger.

The architecture of the cities and the campaigns is also not remains about it because it them impressive national cultural characteristics for any visitor. One primarily discovers it in the districts of some strengthened of antan with Zinder (Birni district) and Agadez (old working).