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Article: AFRICA - ARTS AND CULTURES.(Brief Article)
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- African Business
- Article date:
- April 1, 2001
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Edited by John Mack
[pound]16.99 British Museum Press ISBN 0-7141-2548-8
In early March, The British Museum inaugurated the African Galleries which exhibit some 600 African works of art. These new galleries represent just 3% of the British Museum's total collection, with the world renowned museum keeping around 200,000 African artifacts.
This huge collection has, for the last 30years, been kept (although not necessarily displayed) by London's Museum of Mankind. Many artefacts have not been on public display for many years, although some featured in the seminal Africa'95 festival which saw a great array of African antiquities displayed at the ...