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Museum · Napoli (NA)

Museum of the African Society of Italy

  • Visit: about 1 h 30 min
Pictured: Napoli · Wolfgang Moroder · CC BY-SA 3.0 · resized and cropped

A museum opened in 2014 at Palazzo Du Mesnil, with the ethnographic collections gathered by the African Society of Italy since 1885.

At Palazzo Du Mesnil, one of the seats of the Naples university of Oriental studies, the museum of the African Society of Italy was opened in 2014; the society was founded in 1880 as the African Club.The society supported explorations, lectures and language courses; from 1885 it collected objects during journeys and expeditions. The museum displays these ethnographic collections, a testimony to African cultures and to the history of scholarship in Naples.

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