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The National Museum of African Art is the Smithsonian Institution's African art museum, located on the National Mall of the United States capital. Its collections include 9,000 works of traditional and contemporary African art from both Sub-Saharan and North Africa, 300,000 photographs, and 50,000 library volumes. It was the first institution ...
The Museum of African Culture Is a museum in Newfield, Maine, United States, that specialized in Sub-Saharan African tribal art and culture.Changing exhibits included art inspired by the African diaspora, and the museum's programs included music, storytelling, films, poetry, literature, healing ceremonies and other Sub-Saharan African cultural traditions.
Traditional art describes the most popular and studied forms of African art typically found in museum collections. Wooden masks, which might either be of human, animal or legendary creatures, are one of the most commonly found forms of art in Western Africa. In their original contexts, ceremonial masks are used for celebrations, initiations ...
The Africa Center, formerly known as the Museum for African Art and before that as the Center for African Art, is a museum located at Fifth Avenue and 110th Street in East Harlem, Manhattan, New York City, near the northern end of Fifth Avenue's Museum Mile.
What: Savannah Black Heritage Festival & Savannah African Art Museum When: Lunch-and-Learn at 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.; Hometown Treasures Expo at 1 to 3 p.m., Feb. 19.
Musée du quai Branly under construction, May 2000 A Moai ancestor's head from Easter Island (11th–15th century), carried to France in 1872 by the French Rear-Admiral Lapelin, now in the entrance hall of the museum Schoolchildren visiting the Americas gallery, seen from the mezzanine
Tribal art is often ceremonial or religious in nature. [5] Typically originating in rural areas, tribal art refers to the subject and craftsmanship of artifacts from tribal cultures. In museum collections, tribal art has three primary categories: African art, especially arts of Sub-Saharan Africa; Art of the Americas [6]
Nelson Rockefeller purchase, loaned to the Museum of Primitive Art, New York, 1956–1978. The Museum of Primitive Art was a museum devoted to the early arts of the indigenous cultures of Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe and Oceania. [2] It was founded in 1954 by Nelson Rockefeller, who donated his own collection of Tribal art.