In 1979, the Museum of African Art became part of the Smithsonian Institution following an Act of Congress, and in 1981 it was officially renamed the National Museum of African Art. In 1983, Sylvia H.

Public’s changing tastes. Still, the African Art Museum is dwarfed by its sister Smithsonian museums in the size of its collections, in attendance and in visibility.

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NOMA holds on the most important collections of African Art in the US, according to the museum. Google Maps. As curator, Maples will be leading a team of museum staff to organize an upcoming ...

The Museum for African Art is expanding its mission, aiming now to create a policy center akin to Asia Society as it attempts to raise the money needed to finish the long-delayed construction of ...

In October, the newly reimagined African American art galleries will move from their prior position in the North Wing on the museum’s second floor to encompass four gallery rooms in the central ...

The Philadelphia Museum of Art has been a keystone of Philadelphian culture since its founding in 1876, making it one of the oldest public art museums in the United States. Now, the museum is looking ...