African Masterpieces at the Museum of World Culture April 12- November 30 2014
The critically acclaimed travelling exhibition “African Masterpieces – the story of the Kingdom of Ife”is now coming to Gothenburg, Sweden. It opens on the 12th of April at the Museum of World Culture and features some of the world’s most sophisticated historical masterpieces. With “African Masterpieces” the museum wants to contribute to showing a new image of Africa’s history.This is the first exhibition that focuses on the art from Ife, Nigeria and tells the story of the kingdom, which was an early cosmopolitan centre of power in West Africa. The artists in Ife created sculptures and
