Uit de kast...nu op zaal

Uit de kast...nu op zaal (From Storage … To the Galleries) is an exhibition on view through March 31, 2014 at the Afrika Museum in Berg en Dal, Netherlands. The title describes the relocation of a selection of artworks—including anthropomorphic and zoomorphic figures, ornaments, pottery, and other creations of various materials—from the thousands of artifacts held in the museum’s non-display holdings.

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Images courtesy of the Afrika Museum

Arts of Africa at the Mint Museum

The African continent has remarkable diversity in topographical features and ecology: three enormous rivers – Nile, Niger, and Congo – with countless tributaries; large, dense forests and hilly grasslands; huge deserts; and snowcapped mountains. Social and political systems, equally varied, range from great empires to small villages: large kingdoms and city-states, small chieftaincies, and nomadic bands of hunters or semi-nomadic herders. Thus there are many different Africas, and consequently, great diversity in the arts and their histories. Art forms date from 27,000 BCE to yesterday, with countless interactions among native Africans themselves over time; with Muslims, beginning around 1000 BCE; and with Europeans, beginning in the late 15th century. This exhibition is organized by The Mint Museum.

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Royal cap  -  Yoruba, Nigeria  -  20th century

Mask  -  Yaka, DR Congo  -  20th century

Antelope effigy  -  Edo, Nigeria  -  20th century

Information and images courtesy of The Mint Museum