Heinrich Barth's House is a small museum linked to the German explorer who reached Timbuktu in 1853 during a five-year journey across North and West Africa. The display is modest, with reproductions of Barth's drawings and extracts from his writings.
It pairs naturally with Timbuktu's other explorer houses, giving a more human scale to the city's long history as a destination for travellers, scholars, and outsiders trying to understand the Sahara.