Africa's New MuseumsThéodore Monod Art Museum in Dakar

26 min

Available until 08/06/2025

The Théodore Monod Art Museum in Dakar was founded in 1938 when Senegal was a French colony. Its ethnological collections were originally amassed to satisfy European colonialists curiosity for Western African culture. How can this African heritage be decolonised?

Director

Lutz Gregor

Country

Germany

Year

2020

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