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* western states

(by closing date)

Masks of West Africa

Rites, Rituals, and Remembering

Through March 5, 2004

Washington State University Washington State University, at Pullman; land-grant and state supported; chartered 1890, opened 1892 as an agriculture college. From 1905 to 1959 it was the State College of Washington.  

Pullman, WA

Artists Advertising Themselves

Hand-Painted Signs from Ghana

Through May 2, 2004

Craft and Folk Art Museum

Los Angeles, CA

Black President

The Art and Legacy of Fela Anikulapo-Kuti

April 17-July 4, 2004

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts

San Francisco, CA

Saluting Vodou Spirits

Haitian Flags from the Fowler Collection

August 7, 2004-January 9, 2005

UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History The Fowler Museum at UCLA or more commonly, The Fowler is a museum on the campus of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) which explores art and material culture primarily from Africa, Asia and the Pacific, and the Americas, past and present.  

Los Angeles, CA

Divine Revolution

The Art of Edouard Duval-Carrie

October 3, 2004-January 9, 2005

UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History

Los Angeles, CA

Botanica Los Angeles

Latino Popular Religious Art

September 12, 2004-February 27, 2005

UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural 14istory

Los Angeles, CA

continuing exhibitions

(by state)

Phoebe Hearst Museum

Approaching a Century of Anthropology

Phoebe Hearst Museum of Anthropology

University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley is a public research university located in Berkeley, California, United States. Commonly referred to as UC Berkeley, Berkeley and Cal , CA

African Trade Beads

A Comprehensive and Aesthetic Approach

Picard African Trade Bead Museum, Carmel, CA

African Gallery; Pre-Columbian Gallery

Selections from the Proctor Stafford Collection of West Mexican Ceramics

Los Angeles County Museum of Art The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, also known as LACMA, is the official and world-renowned art museum of the County of Los Angeles, California, located on Wilshire Boulevard along Museum Row in the Miracle Mile vicinity of Los Angeles.  

Los Angeles, CA

Matthews Collection of African Art;

Hater Collection of Egyptian Antiquities

Fullerton Art Museum, California State University Enrollment
 

San Bernardino, CA

Africa, Oceania, and the Americas

Gallery DeRoche, San Francisco, CA

Fiber, Feather, Shell and Stone

Shaping Culture in Native California; Power and Creation

Africa beyond the Nile; Realms of the Ancestors

Arts of Oceania; Arts of Native America Vision of the Shaman, Song of the Priest

Bowers Museum of Cultural Art, Santa Ana, CA

Pre-Columbian Art

Santa Barbara Museum of Art Coordinates:

The Santa Barbara Museum of Art is an art museum located at 1130 State St. in downtown Santa Barbara, California.

It was founded in 1941 and currently ranks amongst the top 10 regional art museums in the United States .
, Santa Barbara, CA

Africa, Oceania, and the Americas

Cantor Center for Visual Arts

Stanford University, Stanford, CA

Exploring African Art; Native American Art; Power and Prestige

The Royal Arts of Polynesia

Denver Art Museum The Denver Art Museum is an art museum in Denver, Colorado located in Denver's Civic Center. It is known for its collection of American Indian art, and has a comprehensive collection numbering more than 55,000 works from across the world. , Denver, CO

A Victorian Gentleman's Look at the World

Artifacts from Africa, Oceania, and other regions

Rosemount Victorian House Museum

Pueblo, CO

Multiple Visions A Common Bond

Folk art from more than 100 countries

Museum of International Folk Art The Museum of International Folk Art is a state-run institution in Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA. It is one of eight museums operated by the New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs.  

Santa Fe, NM

Art of Cameroon; Elizabeth Cole Butler Collection of Native American Art; Art of the Northwest Coast

Portland Art Museum The Portland Art Museum (PAM) in Portland, Oregon, United States, was founded in the last days of 1892, making it the oldest art museum in the Pacific Northwest. Upon completion of the most recent renovations, Portland Art Museum became one of the twenty-five largest art museums in , Portland, OR

Traditional Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas

Utah Museum of Fine Arts The Utah Museum of Fine Arts is located on the University of Utah's campus close to Rice-Eccles Stadium. Works of art are displayed on a rotating basis. External links
  • UMFA's Official Website
 

University of Utah The University of Utah (also The U or the U of U or the UU), located in Salt Lake City, is the flagship public research university in the state of Utah, and one of 10 institutions that make up the Utah System of Higher Education. , Salt Lake City, UT

Africa Possessed; Katherine White Collection of African Art; Pre-Columbian and Oceanic Art;

Australian Aboriginal Art Australian Aboriginal art is art done by Australian Aborigines, covering art that pre-dates European colonisation as well as contemporary art by Aborigines based on traditional culture.  

Seattle Art Museum The Seattle Art Museum (commonly known as "SAM") is an art museum located in downtown Seattle, Washington USA. Admission is free on the first Thursday of each month. , Seattle, WA

* central states

(by closing date)

Berni Searle

Recent Works from South Africa

March 29-April 28, 2004

Morlan Gallery, Transylvania University

Lexington, KY

Masterworks of African Art

The Congo Basin

Through May 2, 2004

University of Michigan Museum of Art The University of Michigan Museum of Art, or UMMA, as it is known locally, resides in the Alumni Memorial Hall of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Built as a war memorial in 1909 for the university's fallen alumni from the Civil War, Alumni Memorial Hall  

Ann Arbor, MI

African American Art African American art is a broad term describing the visual arts of the American black community. Influenced by various cultural traditions, including those of Africa, Europe and the Americas, traditional African American art forms include the range of plastic arts, from  from the Permanent Collection

Through May 9, 2004

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
For other places with the same name, see Museum of Fine Arts.
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH), located in Houston, is the largest art museum in the State of Texas and the largest art museum in the USA east of Los Angeles, south of Chicago,
, TX

Material Differences

Art and Identity in Africa

April 3-May 22, 2004

Hamline University St. Paul, MN

The Quest for Immortality

Treasures of Ancient Egypt

March 28-August 8, 2004

Milwaukee Public Museum

Milwaukee, WI

Senenkunya

Many Voices, One Family

March 13-August 29, 2004

Cleveland Museum of Natural History The Cleveland Museum of Natural History is a natural history museum located approximately five miles (8 km) east of downtown Cleveland, Ohio in University Circle, a 550-acre (220 ha) concentration of educational, cultural and medical institutions.  

Cleveland, OH

Art of the Lega

Meaning and Metaphor in Central Africa

Fall 2004

University of Michigan Museum of Art

Ann Arbor, MI

Looking Both Ways

Art of the Contemporary African Diaspora

September 10-November 28, 2004

Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI

The Quest for Immortality

Treasures of Ancient Egypt

September 12, 2004-January 23, 2005

Denver Museum of Nature and Science The Denver Museum Of Nature and Science (DMNS) is the main natural history museum in Denver, Colorado. Home to a number of exhibits, the museum focuses on research and education of the Denver Metro Area.  

Denver, CO

Contemporary Art in Africa

The Jean Pigozzi Collection

January 28, 2005-May 9, 2005

Museum of Fine Arts Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, chartered and incorporated (1870) after a decision by the Boston Athenaeum, Harvard, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to pool their collections of art objects and house them in adequate public galleries.  

Houston, IX

continuing exhibitions

(by state)

Art of Africa and the Americas

Birmingham Museum of Art Coordinates:

The Birmingham Museum of Art is an important regional public art museum, located at 2000 Eighth Ave. North in downtown Birmingham, Alabama.
, Birmingham, AL

Arts of Africa and the Americas

Art Institute of Chicago Art Institute of Chicago, museum and art school, in Grant Park, facing Michigan Ave. It was incorporated in 1879; George Armour was the first president. Since 1893 the Institute has been housed in its present building, designed in the Italian Renaissance style by , Chicago, IL

Africa Gallery; Native American and Oceanic Art

Field Museum, Chicago, IL

African Musical Instruments, Fabrics and Jewelry

Milner Library, Illinois State University

Normal, IL

Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas

Indiana University Art Museum The Indiana University Art Museum was designed by I.M. Pei & Partners as a commission by the board of trustees of Indiana University. Construction began in 1978 and ended in 1982.  

Bloomington, IN

Eiteljorg Gallery of African Art; Arts of Oceania and the Americas

Indianapolis Museum of Art The Indianapolis Museum of Art is an art museum in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. History
The Indianapolis Museum of Art is among the largest and oldest general art museums in the United States.
, Indianapolis, IN

African Art Collection

Des Moines Art Center The Des Moines Art Center is an art museum with an extensive collection of paintings, sculpture, modern art and mixed media. A large exhibition hall rotates through several themes during the year, most of which are featured from one to three months at a time. , Des Moines, IA

Arts of Africa; African Furnishings

University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City, IA

Art and Life in Africa

Selections from the Stanley Collection

University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City, IA

Imperato Africa Gallery

Objects from the Sahara, the Sahel, Nigeria,

Central Africa, and the Coastal Rain Forest

Martin and Osa Johnson
For the rugby player Martin Johnson see Martin Johnson.


Martin Johnson (October 9 1884 – January 13 1937) and his wife Osa Johnson (née Leighty, March 14 1894 – January 7 1953) were adventurers from Kansas, United States.
 Safari Museum

Chanute, KS

The World is a Journey

Art in African Life; African Gallery; Price Gallery for Native American Art

J.B. Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY

Art of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas

New Orleans Museum of Art The New Orleans Museum of Art (often referred to as NOMA) in New Orleans, Louisiana, was established in 1911 as the Delgado Museum of Art with a bequest from Isaac Delgado. , New Orleans, LA

African Art of Dual Worlds

University of Michigan Museum of Art

Ann Arbor, MI

Oceanic Art

Selected Objects from the Collection of Richard Manoogian

Detroit Institute of Arts The Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA), originally named the Detroit Museum of Art, has one of the largest, most significant art collections in the United States. , Detroit, MI

Arts of Africa; Art of the Americas

Minneapolis Institute of Arts The Minneapolis Institute of Arts is a comprehensive art museum located in Minneapolis, Minnesota on a campus that covers nearly 8 acres (32,000 m²). It does not charge an entrance fee (although it does charge for some special exhibitions), and allows photography of its permanent  

Minneapolis, MN

Oceanic and pre-Columbian Art; African Art Gallery

Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art is the preeminent art museum in Kansas City, Missouri. It is considered one of the finest art collections in the United States. History
The museum was built on the grounds of Oak Hall, the home of Kansas City Star
 

Kansas City, MO

Oceania; Arts of Africa and the Diaspora

Saint Louis Art Museum The Saint Louis Art Museum is rated as one of the principal art museums in the United States and is visited by up to a half million people every year. Admission is free.[1]

Located in Forest Park in St.
, St. Louis, MO

Pre-Columbian, Oceanic, Native American, and African Art

Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE

Art of Africa; Art of the Americas; African American Prints and Drawings

Cincinnati Art Museum

Cincinnati, OH

African, Oceanic, Pre-Columbian, and Native American Art; Video of Masking Performances

Cleveland Museum of Art Located in the University Circle neighborhood of Cleveland, Ohio, the internationally renowned Cleveland Museum of Art has a permanent collectionof more than 40,000 objects in 70 galleries. , Cleveland, OH

Dimensions in Black Art

African, Afro-Brazilian, and African-American Art

Afro-American Cultural Center

Cleveland State University, Cleveland, OH

Arts of Africa and Oceania

Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH

African Gallery

Toledo Museum of Art The Toledo Museum of Art is an internationally known art museum located in the Old West End neighborhood of Toledo, Ohio, United States. The museum was founded by Toledo glassmaker Edward Drummond Libbey in 1901, and moved to its present location, a Greek revival building designed , Toledo, OH

African Gallery; Woven Worlds

Basketry from the Clark Field Collection

Philbrook Museum of Art The Philbrook Museum of Art in Tulsa, Oklahoma is an art museum and former home of Oklahoma oil pioneer Waite Phillips and his wife Genevieve (Elliott) Phillips. As of 2007, the museum has a staff of 60 and an operating budget of nearly $6 million. , Tulsa, OK

African Art from the Fisk University Collection

Fisk University Galleries, Nashville, TN

Arts of Africa, Asia and the Pacific

Dallas Museum of Art The Dallas Museum of Art is an art museum located in the Arts District of downtown Dallas, Texas, USA along Woodall Rodgers Freeway between St. Paul and Harwood. History , Dallas, TX

Sub-Saharan African Art; PreColumbian Art; Glassell Collection of African Gold

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

Houston, TX

Coffin Display from Ghana

American Funeral Service Museum, Houston, TX

African Textile Traditions; The Antelope in African Art; The Tuareg

Beloit College, Beloit, WI

* eastern states

(by closing date)

African-American Quilts

>From the Robert & Helen Cargo Collection

Through February 29, 2004

Textile Museum, Washington, DC

Doubly Blessed

The Ibeji Twins of Nigeria

Through March 1, 2004

Museum for African Art The Museum for African Art is located in the neighborhood of Long Island City in the borough of Queens in New York City (USA). Founded in 1984, the museum is "dedicated to increasing public understanding and appreciation of African art and culture.  

Long Island City, NY

Looking Both Ways

Art of the Contemporary African Diaspora

Through March 1, 2004

Museum for African Art

Long Island City, NY

African Shields

Art, Power and Identity

Through March 2, 2004

Newark Museum of Aft, Newark, NJ

Embracing the Muse

Africa and African American Art

Through March 6, 2004

Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY

In Honor of Ancestors

Shrine Arts of Owe and Edo Peoples of Nigeria

Through March 14, 2004

Harn Museum, University of Florida

Gainesville, FL

Personal Power, Public Pride

Monumental Sculpture of the Igbo People of Nigeria

Through March 14, 2004

Ham Museum, University of Florida

Gainesville, FL

Old Kingdom Tombs of Perneb and Raemkai

Special viewing period through March 14, 2004, reopening May 4, 2004

Metropolitan Museum of Art

New York, NY

Reinstallation

Arts of Africa and Oceania Galleries, Art of the Ancient World Egyptian Galleries, Art of the Ancient World Nubian Galleries

Opens March 30, 2004

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
For other places with the same name, see Museum of Fine Arts.


The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Massachusetts, is one of the largest museums in the United States, and contains one of the largest permanent museum collections in the Americas.
, MA

13th Triennial Symposium on African Art

African Art: Roots and Routes

March 31-April 4, 2004

Cambridge, Boston, and Salem, MA

Coptic Egypt 300-1000 A.D.

A Multicultural Society

Through April 11, 2004

Newark Museum, Newark, NJ

In the Studio

Portrait Photographs from Africa

Through July 4, 2004

Newark Museum

Newark, NJ

Fred Wilson

Objects and Installations, 1985-2000

April 28-July 4, 2004

Studio Museum in Harlem The Studio Museum in Harlem is an American fine arts museum in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City, New York. It was founded in 1968 as the first such museum in the U.S.  

New York NY

Looking Both Ways

Art of the Contemporary African Diaspora

March 27-July 18 2004

Peabody Essex Museum

Salem, MA

A Decade of Democracy

Witnessing South Africa

Twenty contemporary South African artists

April 1-July 31, 2004

Museum of the National Center of Afro-American Artists

Boston, MA

Of Power and Grace

The Art of Southern Africa

Through August 1, 2004

Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando FL

Timeless Connections

Exploring Tapestry Weave

April 16, 2004-August 1, 2004

Textile Museum, Washington, DC

Where Gods and Mortals Meet

Continuity and Renewal in Urhobo Art

April 8, 2004-August 16, 2004

Museum for African Art

Long Island City NY

Objects of Devotion

Traditional Art of Ethiopia

Through August 29 2004

Newark Museum, Newark, NJ

My Ethiopia

Recent Paintings by Wosene Worke Kosrof

Through August 29, 2004

Newark Museum

Newark, NJ

Echoing Images

Couples in African Sculpture

Through September 5, 2004

Metropolitan Museum of Art

New York, NY

Out of Bounds

women Artists of Africa

July 20-mid-September 2004

University of New England The University of New England can refer to:
  • University of New England, Maine, in Biddeford, Maine
  • University of New England, Australia, in New South Wales
 

Portland, ME

African Gold from the Glassell Collection, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

March 13-September 19, 2004

High Museum of Art, Atlanta GA

Glories of Ancient Egypt

March 13-September 19, 2004

High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA

Balance and Abundance

Concepts of Gender in African Art

Through October 17, 2004

Harn Museum, University of Florida

Gainesville, FL

Insights

Works by nine contemporary artists from the museum collection

Through November 28, 2004

National Museum of African Art The National Museum of African Art is a museum that is part of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.. Located on the National Mall, the museum specializes in African art and culture.  

Washington, DC

Playful Performers

Children's masquerades in Africa

April 9-December 12, 2004

National Museum of African Art

Washington, DC

A Fiction of Authenticity

Contemporary Africa Abroad

October 16, 2004-January 16, 2005

Purnell Center for the Arts

Carnegie Mellon University

Pittsburgh, PA

Where Gods and Mortals Meet

Continuity and Renewal in Urhobo Art

October 16, 2004-January 16, 2005

Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, SC

A Saint in the City

Sufi Arts of Urban Senegal

January 4 2005-March 15, 2005

Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida

Gainesville, FL

Patterns of Life

Bold and Powerful Ndebele Art of South Africa Art of South Africa is a term used to denote creative output by human beings from South Africa.

The oldest art objects in the world were discovered in a South African cave.
 from the Norma Canelas and William D. Roth Collections

August 14, 2004-June 19, 2005

Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL

The Art of the Ancient Americas and the Art of Africa

Through June 2005

Yale University Art Gallery The Yale University Art Gallery houses a significant and encyclopedic collection of art in several buildings on the campus of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. Although it embraces all cultures and periods, the Gallery possesses especially renowned collections of early  

New Haven, CT

continuing exhibitions

(by state)

Images of Power and Identity; The Art of the Personal Object; The Ancient West African City of Benin, A.D. 1300-1897;

The Ancient Nubian City of Kerma, 2500-1500 B.C.; Ceramic Arts at the National Museum of African Art; Sokari Douglas Camp: Three Sculptures

National Museum of African Art

Washington, DC

African Voices

National Museum of Natural History For the museum in Manhattan, see .

This article is about the museum in Washington, D.C.. For other uses, see National Museum of Natural History (disambiguation).

The National Museum of Natural History
 

Washington, DC

Ancestors of the Incas

Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando FL

The Arts of Africa; Pre-Columbian Collection; Alfred I. Barton Collection of Southwest Native American Art

Lowe Art Museum

University of Miami

Coral Gables, FL

African Masks

Black Heritage Museum Miami, FL

Dubois Collection of West African Art; Oceanic Art; Native American Art

Appleton Museum of Art Ocala, FL

Tribal Art from Africa, Australasia, and Native America

Aboriginals: Art of the First Person

Sanibel, FL

Traditional African Art

Ritual, Adornment, Everyday Life

Albany Museum of Art The Albany Museum of Art is located in Albany, Georgia, U.S. Background
The museum is a non-profit organization governed by a 28 member elected board of directors. History
The museum was founded in 1964 as the outgrowth of the Southwest Georgia Art Association.
, Albany, GA

African and Egyptian, Near Eastern, Pre-Columbian, and Oceanic Art

Michael C. Carlos Museum The Michael C. Carlos Museum is administered by Emory University on its campus in DeKalb County near Atlanta, Georgia.

The Carlos Museum has the largest collections in the Southeast United States of objects from ancient Egypt, Greece, Rome, the Near East, and the ancient
 

Emery University Atlanta GA

The Richman Collection of African Art

High Museum of Art

Atlanta, GA

The Spirit Masks of the Nigerian Igbos

Museum of African Tribal Art

Portland, ME

Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas

Baltimore Museum of Art The Baltimore Museum of Art in Baltimore, Maryland, was founded in 1914. It is located between the Charles Village and Remington neighborhoods, immediately adjacent to the Homewood campus of Johns Hopkins University, though the museum is an independent institution not affiliated , Baltimore MD

Ethiopian Art from the Collection

Waiters Art Museum, Baltimore, MD

Traditional Tribal Art

Hamill Gallery of African Art

Boston, MA

Encounters with the Americas; Ju/Wasi: Bushmen of the Kalahari

Peabody Museum, Harvard University

Cambridge, MA

Forms and Forces

Art from Africa, New Guinea, Australia, and Indonesia

Museum Primitives, Haddonfield, NJ

Africa, The Arts of Power; Design in Native American Art; Faces of Worship

A Yoruba God in Two Worlds

Newark Museum, Newark, NJ

African, Native American, and pre-Columbian Art

Art Museum, Princeton University

Princeton, NJ

African Art and Culture

African Art Museum of the S.M.A. Fathers

Tenafly, NJ

African Gallery; Art of the Pacific and the Americas

Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY

African Sculptures

Simmons Collection African Arts Museum

Brooklyn, NY

Contemporary African Art

Contemporary African Art Gallery

New York, NY

African Art

Farid Tawa Gallery

New York, NY

Primitive and Modern Arts

Morton D. Simpson Gallery

New York, NY

Egyptian Art Galleries; The Jan Mitchell Treasury

250 gold objects from all the goldworking areas of the ancient Americas

Metropolitan Museum of Art

New York, NY

African, Oceania, and the Americas

Rockefeller Wing, Metropolitan Museum of Art

New York, NY

African Art

Pace Primitive

New York, NY

Traditional African Tribal Art

Tribal Reality Gallery

New York, NY

African Art

Warri Gallery

New York, NY

African Art from the Permanent Collection

Neuberger Museum of Art

State University of New York (body) State University of New York - (SUNY) The public university system of New York State, USA, with campuses throughout the state.  

Purchase, NY

Arts of West Africa

Charles D Miller III Gallery

St. James, NY

Jambo!

African Art from the Permanent Collection

Everson Museum of Art The Everson Museum of Art, in Downtown Syracuse, New York, is a major Central New York museum focusing on American art. History
The museum was founded in 1897 by art historian George Fisk Comfort (who also helped found the Metropolitan Museum of Art); at that time, it
, Syracuse, NY

African, Ancient American, and Oceanic Galleries

North Carolina Museum of Art The North Carolina Museum of Art is an art museum that houses the art collections of North Carolina. It is located in Raleigh, NC. Museum
The museum has an extensive permanent collection which is free to visit.
 

Raleigh, NC

African Art

>From Liberia, Sierra Leone, Ghana, Togo and Nigeria

Charles Jones African Art

Wilmington, NC

Americas, Africa, Asia and Oceania

Museum of Anthropology, Winston-Salem, NC

African Art

Barnes Foundation

Merion, PA

African Gallery; Egypt and Mesopotamia; Mesoamerican Art; Native American Art

University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology The University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archeology and Anthropology is an archaeology and anthropology museum that is part of the University of Pennsylvania in University City, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.  

Philadelphia, PA

Photography and the Art of Ethnography

The Kujamaat Joola of Senegal in the 1960s;

Passionate Hobby

Rudolf Haffenreffer and the King Philip Museum

Masterpieces of Native American art from the museum founder's collection

Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology The Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology is Brown University's anthropology museum, set within 376 acres (1.52 km²) of woodland on the shores of Mount Hope Bay on Tower Street, Bristol, Rhode Island, and with a satellite location on the university campus in Providence, Rhode Island. , Bristol, RI

African-American Art; Native American Art; African Arts

Power, Beauty, Community

Hampton University Museum

Hampton, VA

African, Oceanic, and Pre-Columbian Galleries

Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, VA

Spirit of the Motherland

African Art at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts The Virginia Museum of Fine arts, or ‘’’VMFA’’’ is an art museum in Richmond, Virginia. It is one of the first museums in the American South to be operated by state funds.  

Virginia Museum of Fine Arts

Richmond, VA

* canada

(by closing date)

Eternal Egypt

Masterworks of Ancient Art from the British Museum

Through June 6, 2004

Royal Ontario Museum

Toronto, ON

Eternal Egypt

Masterworks of Ancient Art from the British Museum

July 10-October 31, 2004

Royal British Columbia Museum The Royal British Columbia Museum is a historical museum located in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. It was given the "Royal" title upon a visit by Queen Elizabeth II in 1986.

The museum is one of the centrepieces of Victoria's tourist industry.
 

Victoria, BC

Eternal Egypt

Masterworks of Ancient Art from the British Museum

January 22, 2005-May 15, 2005

Montreal Museum of Fine Arts The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (French: Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal) is a major art museum in Montreal, Canada. It was founded in 1860, making it Canada's oldest art institution.  

Montreal, PQ

continuing exhibitions

(by province)

Where Symbols Meet

A Celebration of West African Achievement

Glenbow Museum, Calgary, AL

African Collection

Museum of Anthropology

University of British Columbia Locations
Vancouver
The Vancouver campus is located at Point Grey, a twenty-minute drive from downtown Vancouver. It is near several beaches and has views of the North Shore mountains. The 7.
, Vancouver, BC

The Nubia Gallery; Ontario Prehistory Gallery

Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, ON

African, Oceanic, Amerindian, Inuit, and Pro-Columbian Art

Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, PQ

* europe

(by closing date)

Africa: Masterpieces of a Continent

Through February 15, 2004

Galleria d'Arte Moderna

Turin, Italy

Arkilla

Wedding Blankets from Malt

Through February 16, 2004

Museum der Kulturen, Basel, Switzerland

Malerei aus Westafrika

Body art and wall decoration of Lome women in Guinea

Through February 29, 2004

Museum Kunst Palast, Dusseldorf, Germany

World of Eastern Christians

Includes section on the Coptic Church and the Church of Ethiopia

Through February 2004

Naprstek Museum, Prague, Czech Republic

Sieges d'Afrique Noire

dans les Collections du Musee Barbier-Mueller

Through March 22, 2004

L'Ensemble Conventual des Jacobins de Toulouse

Toulouse, France

Parures de Tete

African headwear

Through July 11, 2004

Musee Dapper, Paris, France

Retours d'Afrique

Collections du Chateau de Blots

Through August 31,2004

Chateau do Blots, Blois France

Black President

The Art and Legacy of Fela Anikulapo-Kuti

September 9-October 24, 2004

Barbican Art Galleries, London, England

The Heritage of Slavery

Through November 7, 2004

Wereldmuseum Rotterdam

Rotterdam, Netherlands

Boten aus dem Jenseits

Afrikanische Kleinfiguren der "Schenkung Anna Erna Grassnick"

Through 2004

Linden Museum, Stuttgart, Germany

Africa Screams

Evil in Cinema, Art and the Occult

November 5, 2004-February 5, 2005

Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria

Afrika: Kunst und Kultur

Through September 2005

Ethnologisches Museum, Berlin, Germany

continuing exhibitions

(by country)

Art of Africa; Pre-Columbian Art; Indians of North America; Polynesian Art

Museum fur Volkerkunde, Vienna, Austria

Art and Ethnography from Africa, Oceania and the Americas

Etnografisch Museum, Antwerp, Belgium

Masked Celebrations and Traditions in Africa, Oceania, Europe and the New World

Musee International du Carnaval et du Masque

Binche, Belgium

Africa

Art, archaeology, cultural anthropology, and history

Africa-Museum, Tervuren, Belgium

Art and Ethnography from the Americas and Oceania

Naprstek Museum, Prague Czech Republic

Ethnographical Treasures

National Museum of Denmark The National Museum of Denmark in Copenhagen is Denmark’s central museum of cultural history, comprising the histories of Danish and foreign cultures, alike.

The museum has a number of national commitments, particularly within the following key areas: archaeology,
 

Copenhagen, Denmark

Transatlantic Slavery Against Human Dignity

Merseyside Maritime Museum

Liverpool, England

West Africa

Bronzes from Benin City, woodcarving from Yoruba and Ibo areas

Liverpool Museum, Liverpool, England

Contemporary African Artists

Africa Centre, London, England

African History and Achievements

Commonwealth Institute, London, England

African Worlds; Arts of the Pacific

Horniman Museum, London, England

Sainsbury African Galleries

British Museum, London, England

African and World Art, Ethnography, and Archaeology; Body Arts

Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford, England

Art et Traditions d'Afrique Notre

Musee Africain, Lyon, France

Art from Africa, Oceania, and the Americas

Musee d'Arts Africains, Oceaniens Amerindiens

Marseilles, France

Arts Premiers

Musee du Louvre Louvre (l`vrə), foremost French museum of art, located in Paris. The building was a royal fortress and palace built by Philip II in the late 12th cent.  

Paris, France

African Gallery

Musee de l'Homme

Paris, France

Arts d'Afrique (Maghreb Compris) et d'Oceanie

Musee des Arts d'Afrique et d'Oceanie

Paris, France

Sculptures and Masks from Africa

Gallery African and Tribal Arts, Berlin, Germany

Kunst aus West-und Zentral Afrika; Kulturen und Geschichte Afrikas

Museum fur Volkerkunde, Hamburg, Germany

African Art

Reiss-Museum, Mannheim, Germany

African Art

Staatliches Museum for Volkerkunde, Munich, Germany

Africa: Art from Cameroon, Nigeria, East Africa

Linden-Museum, Stuttgart, Germany

Ancient Egypt

National Museum of Ireland The National Museum of Ireland (NMI), or Ard-Mhúsaem na hÉireann in Irish, is the national museum in Ireland. It has three centres in Dublin and one in County Mayo, with a strong emphasis on Irish art, culture and natural history. , Dublin, Ireland

Africa and Oceania

Museo Preistorico Etnografico "L. Pigorini"

Rome, Italy

Society and Religion

Afrika Museum, Borg en Dal, Netherlands

African Art; Treasury

Wereldmuseum, Rotterdam, Netherlands

The Sahel

Daily Life and Survival

Museom Department of Ethnology

The Hague, Netherlands

Wider World

Art of Africa, Americas, and Oceania

National Museums of Scotland The National Museums of Scotland are the several national museums of Scotland. List of national museums
  • The National Museum of Scotland, comprising two linked museums on Chambers Street, in the Old Town of Edinburgh:
 

Edinburgh, Scotland

Village Life in Lower Zaire

National Museum of Ethnography

Stockholm, Sweden

African, Oceanic, and Native American Art

Museum der Kulturen, Basel, Switzerland

African Masks and Handicrafts, Berber Jewelry, Akan Goldweights, Bamum Drawings and Writing

Musee d'Ethnographie, Geneva Geneva, canton and city, Switzerland
Geneva (jənē`və), Fr. Genève, canton (1990 pop. 373,019), 109 sq mi (282 sq km), SW Switzerland, surrounding the southwest tip of the Lake of Geneva.
, Switzerland

Art from Antiquity and Tribal Civilizations

Musee Barbier-Mueller, Geneva, Switzerland

Egypt; Black Africa; Cabinet de Meuron

Musee d'Ethnographie, Neuchatel, Switzerland

Traditional African Art

Gallery Walu

Zurich, Switzerland

African and Oceanic Art From the Baron Eduard van der Heydt Collection

Museum Rietberg, Zurich, Switzerland

* africa

(by closing date)

Coexistence

Contemporary Cultural Production in South Africa

Through March 2004

South African National Gallery The South African National Gallery is the national art gallery of South Africa located in Cape Town. The collection began in 1872 with the donation of Sir Thomas Butterworth's personal gallery. , Cape Town, South Africa

Figures of Speech

Female figures, from the Musee Barbier-Mueller collection, that show women as communicators with the spirit world

February 19-May 20

Gold of Africa Museum

Cape Town, South Africa

Dak'Art

Biennial of Contemporary African Art

May 7-June 7, 2004

Dakar, Senegal

Group Portrait South Africa

Nine Family Histories

Multimedia presentation of contemporary South Africa through the multigenerational experiences of nine families

February/March 2004-March 2005

National Museum of Cultural History, Pretoria, South Africa

continuing exhibitions

(by country)

O-kun: An African Civilization and Its Neighbours

O-kun Museum, Akodi Afrika, Ilorin, Nigeria

Mute Testimonies

SANG Permanent Collection

South African National Gallery

Cape Town, South Africa

Affinities

Paintings, sculptures, craftwork, and photographs demonstrating cross-cultural interaction in South Africa

South African National Gallery

Cape Town, South Africa

Southern African Tribal Art

Afri-Karner Museum, Franschhoek, South Africa

Southern African Beadwork and Artifacts

Fiona le Blanc Gallery

Rosebank, Johannesburg, South Africa

The Horstmann Collection of Southern African Art; The Foundation Collection; New, Used & Improved

Contemporary South African art; Secular and Spiritual

Objects of Mediation on Views from Within; Permanent Collection of Southern African Traditional/Transitional Art

Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa

The Permanent Collections at MuseumAfrica

MuseumAfrica, Johannesburg, South Africa

Nigerian Art: The Meneghelli Collection

Totem Gallery

Johannesburg, South Africa

The Standard Bank Collection of African Art

University of the Witwatersrand Due to the 1959 Extension of University Education Act the school was only allowed to register a small number of black students for most of the apartheid era, even though several notable black anti-apartheid leaders graduated from the university.  Art Galleries

Johannesburg, South Africa

Art from West Africa

Totem Galleries: Rosebank, Carlton, Sandton

Johannesburg, South Africa

Sisonke: Symbols of Identity; Traditional African Art; Story of People in Southern Africa

Natal Museum, Pietermaritzburg, Natal, South Africa

Contemporary South African Art from the Permanent Collection

Pretoria Art Museum, Pretoria, South Africa

African Art

Los Art International, Saxonwold, South Africa

Tsonga and North Sotho Art

Tzaneen Museum, Tzaneen, South Africa

Permanent Collection

National Gallery of Zimbabwe, Harare, Zimbabwe

* middle east

(by closing date)

Talking Beads

Beadwork from the museum's African collection

Through April 15, 2004

Israel Museum

Jerusalem, Israel

continuing exhibitions

Faith-Dorian and Martin Wright Gallery of African Art

Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
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