Last Exhibit at Museum of African Art on Capitol Hill

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Summary

The Museum of African Art launches its last exhibit on Capitol Hill, "A Human Ideal in African Art/Bamana Figurative Sculpture." When the show closes on June 15, the museum will be closed and the collection and staff moved to the Quadrangle, to reopen in June 1987.

Subject

  • Human Ideal in African Art: Bamana Figurative Sculpture, A (Exhibition)
  • Museum of African Art (U.S.)
  • National Museum of African Art (U.S.)

Category

Chronology of Smithsonian History

Notes

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 371, Box 5, "The Torch," April 1986, p. 2.

Contact information

Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu

Date

April 30, 1986

Topic

  • Art, African
  • Exhibit openings
  • Exhibitions
  • Smithsonian Institution Quadrangle Complex

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