Hommage aux missionnaires ethnographes, récolteurs d'objets de la collection Afrique

On Tuesday, March 31st, from 6–7 PM, a talk will held at the Musée d'ethnographie of Geneva entitled "Hommage aux missionnaires ethnographes, récolteurs d'objets de la collection Afrique (Tribute to missionaries ethnographers, collectors of objects in the African collection)." Speaker will be Floriane Morin, curator of the Africa Department of the MEG. The objects in the collection are witnesses of local magico- religious practices , tools of everyday life and artifacts produced in the workshops of mission stations.


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Album d’aquarelles du pasteur Fernand Grébert. 1913-1932. 

Image courtesy of the MEG

Een Huis vol Indonesia – De Liefkes Collectie

Ending its run tomorrow at the Rijksmuseum voor Volkerkunde is Een Huis vol Indonesia – De Liefkes Collectie (A House Full of Indonesia – The Liefkes Collection), an exhibition honoring keen-eyed collector emeritus Frits Liefkes, who was also a curator at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam and who left nearly 1,000 objects from all over the Indonesian Archipelago to the Leiden Museum in 2010. The objects, ornaments, and weapons of gold, as well as the textiles, furniture, and ritual objects presented, are grouped together in three categories: body ornaments, spatial decoration, and the sacred and ritual sphere. All of the objects testify to the great aesthetic refinement of the cultures in this part of the world, ranging from Aceh in the west to Irian Jaya (Indonesian New Guinea) in the east.

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Image courtesy of the Rijksmuseum voor Volkenkunde, Leiden

Mal D'Africa - La costruzione di una collezione

Approaching its final week on view at the Castello Sforzesco in Milan is Mal D'Africa - La construzione di una collezione, an exhibition showcasing the tribal art collection of the late Alessandro Passarè.  The collection comprises some 400 works from Africa, Oceania, and the pre-Columbian Americas, as well as thousands of slides and a range of manuscripts and travel diaries. Most of the objects on display in the installation are sourced from private collections and have never before been publicly exhibited.

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Images courtesy of the Castello Sforzesco Museum, Milan