Museums and Galleries

• Museum for African Art - New York's Museum for African Art.

• Studio Museum in Harlem - African and African Diaspora exhibits and educational programs

• National Museum of African Art - Smithsonian Institution, features African art from antiquity to the present.

• Afrika Museum - The only museum in the Netherlands exclusively dedicated to the collection, study and exhibition of African art.

• Art and Life in Africa Project   - An extremely rich source of information on African art and its cultural contexts. Based on the Stanley Collection at the University of Iowa.

• African Antiques - Belgian dealer's site, with ethnographic information.

• African Art: Aesthetics and Meaning - A nicely annotated on-line exhibition of African art from the University of Virginia.

• African Art Collection - African tribal arts dealer. Photographs and descriptions including some information on cultural significance.

• African Art Shop - Tribal Art (mostly African), links, and descriptions of some African styles.

• African Experiences at the Baobab Tree - Denver gallery, with good informational content about the items for sale.

• African Odyssey Interactive - Wide range of resources, originates at Kennedy Center (Washington, DC).

• African Tribal Art Museum - A comprehensive collection of African art (700 objects; 90 ethnic groups) and lots of information African tribal peoples.

• AfricanTribes.com - Commercial site with a nice summary of the aesthetics of African art.

• Akan Cultural Symbols - Explanations of the iconography of Akan art.

• Art and Oracle: Metropolitan Museum of Art Exhibition - African art and divination rituals. Includes a map of sub-Saharan Africa, and essays on divination.

• Belgium's Royal Museum for Central Africa - Periodic on-line exhibitions as well as a guide to the Brussells museum. Includes a search facility for finding websites with information about central Africa.

• Charles Jones African Art - Traditional African art, mainly from Zaire, West Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, and Ethiopia. Many images and explanations of cultural significance of the objects.

• Dimondstein, Inc. - Dealer in African art, with periodic exhibitions.

• Emory University Collection of African Art - An exhibition of part of the university's permanent collection of African art. Good accompanying essays on various aspects of African art.

• Ethnographica - African Art and Oriental Rugs - Commercial site with beautiful, high-powered graphics. But navigation is limited unless display resolution exceeds 800 x 600.

• Fowler Museum of Cultural History - Includes exhibitions and information about tribal arts.

• Galerie Peter Herrmann - A commercial gallery. Bilingual (German and English), with many images of African items. Also has a section describing ongoing African art related exhibitions and events elsewhere.

• Hamill Gallery of African Art - A commercial site with nicely documented thematic exhibitions that change every few months. Past exhibitions are viewable as well.

• H+K Gallery - Gallery with many images and some cultural information. In English and German.

• Kate Peck Kent Collection of West African Textiles - Exhibition and background information on textiles from west Africa.

• Kente Cloth - Nice source of information about "Kente" cloth.

• Museum for African Art - New York's Museum for African Art.

• National Gallery - Zimbabwe - Museum site with exhibitions and information about Zimbabwe art.

• National Museum of African Art - The National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution. Site includes exhibitions, articles, museum calendar of events.

• Nigerian Art and Culture - Collection of photos taken during the 1930's, many showing SE Nigerian masks being danced.

• Nok Museum - A virtual museum with exhibitions, articles, a discussion board, and several other features "under construction" as of May 1999.

• Picard Trade Bead Museum And African Art Gallery - Dealer in African art and trade beads, with a trade bead museum.

• Ralph Proctor Gallery - A gallery of African art, with periodic thematic exhibitions.

• Senufo Art - Brief description of the Senufo aesthetic tradition; part of an auction house series.

• Shona Sculpture - A collection of 67 Shona sculptures from Zimbabwe, with some history of this genre.

• The Sissoko House of Art - Dealer, primarily in central and west African arts. Some cultural information and periodic exhibitions.

• Sukuma Museum - Museum devoted to the culture and art of the Sukuma (Tanzania, Africa).

• Tamarin Gallery - A gallery of African art. Periodic exhibitions and an excellent collection of links to other sources.

• Tellem Gallery - Sculpture (masks, statuettes, etc.) and jewelry from many African regions; pre-Columbian art and pottery.

• Virtual Museum of Burkina Faso - Rich source of information on arts and culture of Burkina Faso. In French.

• The World of Beduin Weaving - Extensive information on weaving by the Bedouins of North Africa.