New Africa Center

The Museum for African Art is located in the district of Long Iceland City in the Queens borough of New York City (USA).

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The Museum for African Art is dedicated to the arts and cultures of Africa and the African Diaspora, and since its inception, promotes the public understanding and appreciation for these services in 1984. The museum offers exhibitions and educational programs as well as a store where authentic handmade African crafts sold will. Since its existence, the museum has nearly 60 exhibitions realized which have subsequently been to nearly 140 locations in the United States and shown worldwide in 15 countries.

History

Started as a Center for African Art, was the founding director of the Museum Susan Mullin Vogel, who at the Metropolitan Museum of Art has previously worked as a curator in the Department of Primitive Art. During her time as director of the Museum for African Art Susan Mullin Vogel curated exhibitions, which featured the previous method of presentation of African art for a Western audience in question. Worth mentioning in this context are the exhibitions " Art / Artifact: African Art in Anthropology Collections" (1988 ), " Exhibition - ism: Museums and African Art " (1994) and "Africa Explores: 20th Century African Art " (1991).

2005 was the museum is one of 406 social and cultural institutions of New York City who received a portion of a 20 - million-dollar pot of the Carnegie Corporation, which allows through a correspondingly high dispensing of the Mayor of New York City Michael Bloomberg at the Carnegie Corporation been.

The Museum for African Art is sometimes with the National Museum of African Art in Washington, DC confused.

Relocation and expansion

The museum will move into the second half of 2012 in its new home on Museum Mile on the corner of Fifth Avenue and 110th Street in New York City's borough of Manhattan in Harlem. The new building was designed by Robert AM Stern. Mayor Michael Bloomberg said that this is " the first newly built museum on Museum Mile since the great Guggenheim opened in 1959. " (English: "the first new construction of a museum on Museum Mile since the great Guggenheim opened in 1959. " ) At the same time by the museum for many New Yorkers and tourists will be more accessible. The new building will provide the museum with a theater, education center, library, seminar rooms, meeting rooms, a restaurant and a museum shop, an area of ​​approximately 8,400 m² available, which will be approximately 1,500 sqm of exhibition space. In addition, the building will include a number of apartments.

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