IFAN Museum of African Arts
The Théodore Monod African Art Museum (Musée Théodore Monod d'Art africain) in Dakar, Senegal is one of the oldest art museums in West Africa. It was promoted by Léopold Senghor, the country's first President. It was originally called Le Musée d'Art africain de l'Institut fondamental d'Afrique noire Cheikh Anta Diop IFAN/CAD and later renamed Musée de l'Institut Fondamental d'Afrique Noire or IFAN Museum of African Arts.
IFAN Museum of African Arts
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- Name
- IFAN Museum of African Arts
- Founded
- 1938
- Headquarters
- Senegal
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The Théodore Monod African Art Museum (Musée Théodore Monod d'Art africain) in Dakar, Senegal is one of the oldest art museums in West Africa. It was promoted by Léopold Senghor, the country's first President. It was originally called Le Musée d'Art africain de l'Institut fondamental d'Afrique noire Cheikh Anta Diop IFAN/CAD and later renamed Musée de l'Institut Fondamental d'Afrique Noire or IFAN Museum of African Arts.
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In December 2007, its official title was changed to The Théodore Monod African Art Museum ("Musée Théodore Monod d'Art africain"), after the French naturalist Théodore André Monod, former director of IFAN. The museum is part of the Institut Fondamental d'Afrique Noire (IFAN) institute, founded 1936 under the Popular Front government in France. When IFAN was transferred to Cheikh Anta Diop University in 1960, the building at Place Soweto near the National Assembly of Senegal was converted into a museum. It is today one of the most prestigious centers for the study of African culture and part of the Cheikh Anta Diop University. The museum is one of the regular locations used in the Dakar Biennale exhibition, showing art by contemporary African and diaspora artists.
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• Name — IFAN Museum of African Arts • Established — 1938 • Location — Place Soweto, Plateau, Dakar, Senegal • Type — Art, Culture • Public Transit — Busses: n°8, 7, 12, 13, 9, 6, 5, 15, 16, 23, 5. Direction "Cap Manuel" • Website — ifan.ucad.sn
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The canonical record carries the following identifying particulars. Recorded from 1938. Associated with Senegal.
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The following works and productions are recorded by name or by count. It is also recorded that a painting of African men being seduced by a female prostitute and being infected with AIDS; advertising an exhibition "Sexuality and death. AIDS in contemporary African art". It is also recorded that performance, art and politics in the African diaspora: necropolitics and the Black body / Myron M. The record continues: art d'Afrique dans les collections belges: Musée royal de l'Afrique centrale, Tervuren, 29 juin au 30 octobre 1963 / [catalogue: A. Maesen et H.
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