The Museum of African Art and Ethnology was founded in the year 1985 with the purchase of the collections of African Art of Mr. Hubert H Nicholson and Mrs. Desiree Malik. These collections were annotated and accessioned through UNESCO by Dr. William Seligman Curator of African and Oceanic Art, Brooklyn Museum was declared open in 1992. Since then donations from the local community have continued include art and craft brought from African Community here in Guyana. The Museum has collected pieces from the Burrowes School of art and other day-to-day artifacts from local community.
In 2001, the Museum was renamed the Museum of African Heritage in order to open their doors to a wider audience and begin to fully address the African experience in Guyana. This new mandate or Mission Statement will allow the Museum to explore research and solicit donations from the whole of the community with to share, as well as to begin to provide programmer that will educate visitors to the activities in our lives that come from these origin.
The African Museum of Heritage is the first of its kind in the Caribbean.
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Mission Statement: The Museum of African Heritage is a non-profit institution, created by the Government of Guyana to collect, preserve, exhibit and research art and artifacts relating to Africa and the African experience in Guyana, and to disseminate this knowledge through its out-reach programme.
The Museum shall pursue any aim and objective relating to its Mission and functions:
• Promote and make the Museum accessible to students, researchers, and the general public.
• Market the Museum in the African Culture.
• Provide proper storage for the collection.
• Expand the collection in keeping with the mission statement of the museum.
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