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The National Museum of African Art was the first institution dedicated to African art in the United States, [6] followed by the New York-based Center for African Art (now The African Center) in 1984. [25] The National Museum's collection is more extensive. As of 2008, it consisted of 9,000 objects and 300,000 photographs.
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.
In many Western museums, African art usually is relegated to the least desirable galleries and the objects within them—masterworks of wood, fabric, and metal—are presented beneath poor ...
The Afriart Gallery (AAG) is an art gallery located on the 7th Street Industrial Area in Kampala in Uganda that was established in 2002. [1] [2] It represents and manages careers of contemporary artists living and working on the African continent. AAG showcases artists at major international art exhibitions and art fairs.
Most of its collection comes from the West Africa. The museum specializes in African art, and predominantly features African masks. It was established from the private collection of Croatian diplomat in service of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Zdravko Pečar (born in Međimurje), and was a result of his long stay as Ambassador to ...
Museum of the African Diaspora members stand outside the museum, awaiting a tour. The Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD) is a contemporary art museum in San Francisco, California. MoAD holds exhibitions and presents artists exclusively of the African diaspora, one of only a few museums of its kind in the United States.
An example of an African American museum: The Dr. Carter G. Woodson African American History Museum. Woodson was the founder of Black History Month, and a noted educator. This is a list of museums in the United States whose primary focus is on African American culture and history. Such museums are commonly known as African American museums ...
Susan Mullin Vogel is a curator, professor, scholar, and filmmaker whose area of focus is African art. [1] She was a curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, founded what is now The Africa Center in the early 1980s, served as Director of the Yale University Art Gallery, taught African art and architecture at Columbia University, and has made films.