<Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> Statues and plaque at the Maison des Esclaves Memorial (2006). </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Established </Th> <Td> 1962 </Td> </Tr> <P> The House of Slaves (Maison des Esclaves) and its Door of No Return is a museum and memorial to the Atlantic slave trade on Gorée Island, 3 km off the coast of the city of Dakar, Senegal . Its museum, which was opened in 1962 and curated until Boubacar Joseph Ndiaye's death in 2009, is said to memorialise the final exit point of the slaves from Africa . While historians differ on how many African slaves were actually held in this building, as well as the relative importance of Gorée Island as a point on the Atlantic Slave Trade, visitors from Africa, Europe, and the Americas continue to make it an important place to remember the human toll of African slavery . </P> <P> The House of Slaves was reconstructed and opened as a museum in 1962 largely through the work of Boubacar Joseph Ndiaye (1922--2009). Ndiaye was an advocate of both the memorial and proclamation that slaves were held in the building in great numbers and from here transported directly to the Americas . Eventually becoming curator of the Museum, Ndiaye claimed that more than a million slaves passed through the doors of the house . This belief has made the house both a tourist attraction and the site for state visits by world leaders to Senegal . </P>

Where is the door of no return located