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IFAN Museum (African Arts Museum)

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IFAN Museum (African Arts Museum)
IFAN Museum (African Arts Museum)
IFAN Museum (African Arts Museum)
IFAN Museum (African Arts Museum)
IFAN Museum (African Arts Museum)
IFAN Museum (African Arts Museum)
IFAN Museum (African Arts Museum)
IFAN Museum (African Arts Museum)
IFAN Museum (African Arts Museum)
IFAN Museum (African Arts Museum)
IFAN Museum (African Arts Museum)
IFAN Museum (African Arts Museum)
IFAN Museum (African Arts Museum)
IFAN Museum (African Arts Museum)
IFAN Museum (African Arts Museum)
IFAN Museum (African Arts Museum)
IFAN Museum (African Arts Museum)
IFAN Museum (African Arts Museum)
IFAN Museum (African Arts Museum)
IFAN Museum (African Arts Museum)
IFAN Museum (African Arts Museum)
IFAN Museum (African Arts Museum)
IFAN Museum (African Arts Museum)
IFAN Museum (African Arts Museum)
IFAN Museum (African Arts Museum)
Phone:
+221 33 823 92 68

Hours:
Sunday9am - 4pm
MondayClosed
Tuesday9am - 4pm
Wednesday9am - 4pm
Thursday9am - 4pm
Friday9am - 4pm
Saturday9am - 4pm


The Musée de l'Institut Fondamental d'Afrique Noire or IFAN Museum of African Arts in Dakar, Senegal is one of the oldest art museums in West Africa. It was promoted by Léopold Senghor, the country's first President. In December 2007, its official title was changed to The Théodore Monod African Art Museum , after the French naturalist Théodore André Monod, former director of IFAN. Previously its official name had been Le Musée d'Art africain de l'Institut fondamental d'Afrique noire Cheikh Anta Diop IFAN/CAD. The museum is part of the Institut Fondamental d'Afrique Noire institute, founded 1936 under the Popular Front government in France. When IFAN was transferred to Cheikh Anta Diop University in 1960, the building at Place Soweto near the National Assembly of Senegal was converted into a museum. It is today one of the most prestigious centers for the study of African culture and part of the Cheikh Anta Diop University. As the main cultural research center of the colonies of French West Africa, it contains important collections from across Francophone Africa. The museum is one of the regular locations used in the Dakar Biennale exhibition, showing art by contemporary African and diaspora artists.
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