Metropolitan Museum of Art unveils a new vision: Celebrating 3000 years of African heritage
Max Hollein, CEO and Director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art , poses for a portrait at The Met in New York on 4 April 2024.
The iconic museum hopes to shine a brighter light on its 4000 African works, produced by more than 200 cultures from what today are nearly 40 sub-Saharan African countries. The iconic museum, situated on Fifth Avenue across from Central Park since 1870, thus hopes to shine a brighter light on its 4000 African works, produced by more than 200 cultures from what today are nearly 40 sub-Saharan African countries.
Hollein said the Rockefeller wing, which opened in 1982, already represented a major shift to a"much broader perspective" for the museum, founded and financed by wealthy art lovers, businessmen and collectors of works from Europe, Asia and the Middle East, as well as from ancient Greece and Rome.However, once the renovated and reimagined African galleries open in 2025, they will mark"another milestone".
Working with African countries, the Met in 2020 organised an ambitious exhibit on the arts of the Sahelian empires of the Middle Ages and a smaller one, which ended last month, on 1000 years of influence by the Byzantine empire on the art of the Christians of Egypt, Tunisia, Ethiopia and Sudan.
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