PERSONNALITÉ An institution can have several lives. We have done a great deal of work to disseminate, validate, and promote knowledge of traditional African art. Starting several years ago, we also began to address contemporary African art and diaspora cultures, and we have produced several exhibitions in Africa that were extremely well received. We have become more active in the living arts by sponsoring concerts, lectures, conferences, fi lm screenings, and other presentations in our auditorium. This has greatly enlarged our sphere of activity and has brought us a new audience made up of people born in Europe but of African and Caribbean origin. We feel we’ve found a new mission that we should pursue through these activities as well as in other cultural aspects of contemporary Africa. We must remain dynamic and not be content to rest on our laurels. Still, after all is said and done, the Musée Dapper’s spirit remains the same that its creator imbued it with in 1986. It exists to create and promote real and meaningful exchanges 128 between cultures.
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