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Learn from its complex organization of social, economic, and political systems.</p> <p class="text-sm d-none d-md-block">Above: Kota Guardian Figure, Congo. <a href="https://www.penn.museum/collections/object/30253">29-12-236</a></p> </div> <div class="right-rail"> <p class="text-lg">Trace the journey from maker to museum to consider why, where, and how objects were made. Learn how these objects were used in daily life, on special occasions, or in religious ceremonies, and why they were meaningful to the cultures that produced them. </p> <p class="text-lg">As with most Western museums, the foundational objects of this collection were created in, or taken out of, Africa during periods of enslavement and colonialism. Most of the Penn Museum’s Africa collections were acquired by curators, ethnologists, archaeologists, antiquarians, or travelers in the late 19th or early 20th centuries. The objects on display in the Africa Galleries were selected to deepen the conversation about African material culture, its representation in Western museums, and its connection to the African Diaspora. </p> </div> </div> </div> </section> <section> <div class="main-container"> <h2 class="component-label h6">Whats On View</h2> <div class="row g-2 accordion"> <div class="accordion-media"> <img class="accordion-active" src="https://www.penn.museum/img/gallery/africa/70-18-1A.jpg" alt="Gold beaded bracelet." data-image-for="image-one" /> <img class="" src="https://www.penn.museum/img/gallery/africa/AF2458.jpg" alt="Ashanti gold weight in the shape of a bird pecking back, on round base." data-image-for="image-two" /> <img class="" src="https://www.penn.museum/img/gallery/africa/2015-30-71.jpg" alt="Coptic Christian wood icon. Various images include crucifiction, Madonna/Mother Mary and child, St. George and dragon, clerics, soilders, etc." data-image-for="image-three" /> <img class="" src="https://www.penn.museum/img/gallery/africa/29-12-236.jpg" alt="Double comb with ornament of concentric circles and transverse lines." data-image-for="image-four" /> </div> <div class="accordion-text"> <div class="accordion-item"> <button id="accordion-title-1" class="accordion-title accordion-active" tabindex="0" aria-expanded="true" aria-controls="accordion-panel-1" data-title-for="image-one"> <div class="accordion-arrow accordion-rotate"><span><img src="/../img/brand/svg/arrow-down.svg" alt="" /></span></div> <h4>Gold Bead Necklace, ca. 1930 CE</h4> </button> <div id="accordion-panel-1" class="accordion-content" style="display: block;" aria-labelledby="accordion-title-1"> <p>Goldsmiths in Ghana have made beads in the Asante tradition of lost wax casting for generations. These beads were from the artist's extra stock. His son sold them to the Museum nearly 40 years after they were created. <a href="https://www.penn.museum/collections/advanced.php?a_object_number=70-18-1&a_object_name=&a_description=&a_period=&a_provenience=&a_place_name=&a_culture=&a_creator=&a_credit_line=&a_material_technique=&a_locus_area=&a_iconography=&submit_multi=Submit+Query">70-18-1A - R</a></p> </div> </div> <div class="accordion-item"> <button id="accordion-title-2" class="accordion-title" tabindex="0" aria-expanded="false" aria-controls="accordion-panel-2" data-title-for="image-two"> <div class="accordion-arrow"><span><img src="/../img/brand/svg/arrow-down.svg" alt="" /></span></div> <h4>Ashanti Gold Weight, Late 19th-Early 20th century CE</h4> </button> <div id="accordion-panel-2" class="accordion-content" aria-labelledby="accordion-title-2"> <p>These gold weights reflect the customs of the Asante people. Older weights were based on geometric patterns. Later weights include adinkra synbols—used to decorate textiles and pottery—and everyday objects. <a href="https://www.penn.museum/collections/object/205881">AF2458</a></p> </div> </div> <div class="accordion-item"> <button id="accordion-title-3" class="accordion-title" tabindex="0" aria-expanded="false" aria-controls="accordion-panel-3" data-title-for="image-three"> <div class="accordion-arrow"><span><img src="/../img/brand/svg/arrow-down.svg" alt="" /></span></div> <h4>Diptych, 1864-1900 CE</h4> </button> <div id="accordion-panel-3" class="accordion-content" aria-labelledby="accordion-title-3"> <p>Brightly-colored Ethiopian paintings decorate Christian Orthodox churches, religious texts, and protective amulets. These paintings on the right may illustrate scenes from the Garima Gospels—the bible used in the Ethiopian Church for over 1,500 years. <a href="https://www.penn.museum/collections/object/512017">2015-30-7.1</a></p> </div> </div> <div class="accordion-item"> <button id="accordion-title-4" class="accordion-title" tabindex="0" aria-expanded="false" aria-controls="accordion-panel-4" data-title-for="image-four"> <div class="accordion-arrow"><span><img src="/../img/brand/svg/arrow-down.svg" alt="" /></span></div> <h4>Comb, Early 20th Century</h4> </button> <div id="accordion-panel-4" class="accordion-content" aria-labelledby="accordion-title-4"> <p>A double-sided <em>shanua</em> (comb) serves two purposes in one. The long teeth part hair, and the short teeth smooth it out while it is braided. <a href="https://www.penn.museum/collections/object/166252">AF3929</a></p> </div> </div> <p class="text-sm"><a href="https://www.penn.museum/collections/objects/gallery.php?irn=230" class="link-arrow"><span>View all objects on display in this gallery.</span><i></i></a></p> </div> </div> </div> </section> <section> <div class="main-container-overflow full-width-video video-wrapper"> <div class="overlay" id="custom-thumbnail" style="background: linear-gradient(0deg,#000 5.03%,rgba(0,0,0,0) 94.63%), url(https://www.penn.museum/img/gallery/africa/decolonizing-the-narrative-thumbnail.jpg); background-size: cover;" onclick="playVideo()" ></div> <div id="player" data-video-id="F3jiTc_BnTI?rel=0"></div> <div class="main-container" id="text-overlay"> <div class="row g-2"> <div class="left-rail"> <h3>Meet the Curator</h3> </div> <div class="right-rail"> <p class="text-lg">Tukufu Zuberi, Ph.D., shares the process of the creation of the Africa Galleries in conversation with African museum directors, curators, and contemporary artist in the Diaspora and Africa. Current debates about reparations and restitution have led to ongoing conversations about the return of artifacts to Africa. The galleries are designed to deepen the conversation about African material culture and its representation in Western Museums. “So anything done to uplift the culture, the history of the people here is done for the benefit of the world,” says Chief D.U. Edebiri, the Esogban of Benin Kingdom.</p> <button onclick="playVideo()" class="btn btn-blue-outline btn-play playButton" aria-label="Play video" id="play-btn"> <img src="/../img/brand/svg/play-btn-icon.svg" class="icon" alt="Play or pause video button." id="video-btn-icon" /> <span id="play-btn-text">Play Video</span> </button> </div> </div> </div> </div> </section> <section> <div class="main-container"> <div class="row g-2 cards two-up-asymmetric"> <div class="card"> <img src="https://www.penn.museum/img/gallery/africa/global-guides.jpg" alt="A global guide giving a tour in the Africa Galleries." /> <div class="card-body"> <div class="row label"> <p class="text-sm">Tours</p> </div> <h2><a href="/calendar#calendartabs" class="link-arrow stretched-link"><span>Go with a Guide</span><i></i></a></h2> <p class="text-sm">No advance registration is required and many tours are included with Museum admission. Tours begin in the Main Entrance.</p> </div> </div> <div class="card"> <img src="/img/gallery/africa/africa-contemporary-art2.jpg" alt="Artists with their art in the Africa Galleries."> <div class="card-body"> <h2><a href="https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/contemporary-art-penn-museum-africa-sculpture" target="_blank" class="link-arrow stretched-link"><span>Contemporary artists contribute thought-provoking installations </span><i></i></a></h2> <p class="text-sm">Also on display are contemporary art-works commissioned as direct responses to the historical objects in the collection. The installations include <em>Dress</em>, created by <strong>Breanna Moore</strong> and <strong>Emerson Ruffin</strong>, <em>Wall of Memory for an Ancestral Palace</em> by <strong>Jorge Dos Anjos</strong>, and <em>Presence of a Fundamental Absence</em> by <strong>Muhsana Ali</strong> and <strong>Amadou Kane Sy</strong>. <em>Photo by Eric Sucar.</em></p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </section> <section class="cta-banner-text midnight-blue-bg"> <div class="main-container"> <div class="row g-2"> <div class="left-rail"> <h2>Dig Deeper</h2> </div> <div class="right-rail"> <p class="h4">Home to more than one million artifacts, the Penn Museum explores human history across 10,000 years. Only a small fraction are on display in the galleries. 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