Abstract Africa Preserved — The way of displaying objects in folk museums tells us as much about the culture making the exhibit as about the cultures placed on display. Nowadays, museums mainly use two techniques to show African objects: "contextualization" with an ethnological dimension (as in the musée de l'Homme in Paris) and an aesthetic approach (as at the Dapper Foundation and in the musee des Arts africains et oceaniens in Paris). Beyond this art/ethnology dichotomy however, certain museums (for instance, the musée de la Chasse et de la Nature in Paris) seem to fit nature and culture together in the rooms devoted to Africa. Spears, weapons, masks and sculptures are displayed alongside stuffed animals, elephant tusks, hides and skins,...
Though their great quality and richness, the African collections of the Natural History Museum of Ly...
Abstract The Ambiguties of a Private Experience: Free-ranging thoughts on Museums in Africa. — In Af...
Abstract African Reality seen through Objects: The Peter the Creat Museum of Anthropology and Ethnol...
Abstract Africa Preserved — The way of displaying objects in folk museums tells us as much about the...
Interest in « African art » is a twentieth century phenomenon, associated initially with 'avant gard...
Interest in « African art » is a twentieth century phenomenon, associated initially with 'avant gard...
Abstract "Maison du pays": Exhibitions in Private Museums in Western Africa and Cameroon. — From the...
Abstract "Maison du pays": Exhibitions in Private Museums in Western Africa and Cameroon. — From the...
Abstract From Displaying Curious to Showing Masterpieces: the Musee Royal de l'Afrique In Tervuren, ...
Abstract From Displaying Curious to Showing Masterpieces: the Musee Royal de l'Afrique In Tervuren, ...
Abstract The Making of the African Collection at the Hungarian Museum of Ethnology. — In the Hungari...
Abstract The Making of the African Collection at the Hungarian Museum of Ethnology. — In the Hungari...
Most European ethnographie museums were founded in the colonial context and the ways objects were co...
Most European ethnographie museums were founded in the colonial context and the ways objects were co...
Though their great quality and richness, the African collections of the Natural History Museum of Ly...
Though their great quality and richness, the African collections of the Natural History Museum of Ly...
Abstract The Ambiguties of a Private Experience: Free-ranging thoughts on Museums in Africa. — In Af...
Abstract African Reality seen through Objects: The Peter the Creat Museum of Anthropology and Ethnol...
Abstract Africa Preserved — The way of displaying objects in folk museums tells us as much about the...
Interest in « African art » is a twentieth century phenomenon, associated initially with 'avant gard...
Interest in « African art » is a twentieth century phenomenon, associated initially with 'avant gard...
Abstract "Maison du pays": Exhibitions in Private Museums in Western Africa and Cameroon. — From the...
Abstract "Maison du pays": Exhibitions in Private Museums in Western Africa and Cameroon. — From the...
Abstract From Displaying Curious to Showing Masterpieces: the Musee Royal de l'Afrique In Tervuren, ...
Abstract From Displaying Curious to Showing Masterpieces: the Musee Royal de l'Afrique In Tervuren, ...
Abstract The Making of the African Collection at the Hungarian Museum of Ethnology. — In the Hungari...
Abstract The Making of the African Collection at the Hungarian Museum of Ethnology. — In the Hungari...
Most European ethnographie museums were founded in the colonial context and the ways objects were co...
Most European ethnographie museums were founded in the colonial context and the ways objects were co...
Though their great quality and richness, the African collections of the Natural History Museum of Ly...
Though their great quality and richness, the African collections of the Natural History Museum of Ly...
Abstract The Ambiguties of a Private Experience: Free-ranging thoughts on Museums in Africa. — In Af...
Abstract African Reality seen through Objects: The Peter the Creat Museum of Anthropology and Ethnol...