Museum For African Art (now The Africa Center) Employee Directory
Museums, Historical Sites, and ZoosNew York, United States11-50 Employees
The Africa Center, formerly the Museum for African Art, is a New York-based cultural institution dedicated to the arts and cultures of Africa and the African Diaspora. Opened to the public in 1984, it is internationally recognized for organizing exhibitions and scholarly publications on historical and contemporary African art, and for programs that reflect the continent's diversity. The organization operates within the museum sector and engages audiences through traveling exhibitions, publications, and public programming across New York City. It is planning a new 90,000-square-foot facility in a mixed-use development at the corner of Fifth Avenue and East 110th Street in New York, designed by Robert A.M. Stern Architects, LLP, which will join Manhattan's Museum Mile and provide expanded space for exhibitions, public programs, and educational initiatives. Until it opens, the center continues to develop and present traveling exhibitions and scholarly publications, and maintains a broad slate of public programs for adults, families, and schoolchildren at venues throughout New York City.