Visionary: Viewpoints on Africa’s Arts, the National Museum of African Art’s most recent, large-scale presentation of its collection, is the first to offer broad thematic connections between artworks across the spectrum of time, place, and medium.

The National Museum of African Art (NMAfA) began as a private educational institution in 1964 to promote cross-cultural understanding in the social sciences and arts. Founded by Warren M. Robbins, a former U.S. Foreign Service officer, it was known as the Museum of African Art and located on Capitol Hill in a townhouse that had been the home of ...

Dec 13, 2024 · Visionary: Viewpoints on Africa’s Arts, the National Museum of African Art’s most recent, large-scale presentation of its collection, is the first to offer broad thematic connections between artworks across the spectrum of time, place, and medium.

Explore the exceptional beauty, diversity, and contemporary relevance of Africa’s art through our current, upcoming, and past exhibitions.

Discover the National Museum of African Art with us! Bring your students to tour one of our exciting exhibitions and learn about the museum’s unique architecture—the museum is 96% underground! Examine objects and ideas through a variety of age-appropriate activities.

The National Museum of African Art is pleased to partner with Alliance Française of Washington, D.C. to offer guided tours in French as part of the month-long DC 2025 Francophonie Festival in March. The tours will include highlights of African Art’s current exhibitions, with special attention to artists from Francophone Africa, resulting in ...

Provenance at the National Museum of African Art. Learn more about the museum’s work in researching collection provenance—and contribute tips in its efforts.

More than 12,000 artworks spanning more than 1,000 years of African history include a variety of media from across the continent. More than 600,000 items of visual material , including rare collections of glass plate negatives, lantern slides, stereographs, postcards, maps, and engravings on the history and cultures of Africa

The works of art in the collection of the National Museum of African Art have been made with imagination, insight, and the highest level of skill and creativity to address critical perspectives on universal human issues.

The beauty and richness of Africa's pottery resonates through the traditional and modern ceramic works of art collected by the National Museum of African Art. Examples of the museum´s contemporary and tradional ceramic works from different regions of the continent are on view throughout the museum.