Musee Dapper

By on 20/08/2009 in Attractions

Musee Dapper Street View

Musee Dapper Street View

The Musee Dapper is a museum specializing in African art. It is located in the 16th arrondissement at 35 rue Paul Valery, Paris, France, and open daily except Tuesdays; an admission fee is charged.

The museum opened in 1986, as an effort of the Olfert Dapper Foundation, and is named in honor of a Dutch humanist who in 1668 published an encyclopaedic description of Africa. In addition to its ongoing series of art exhibitions, the museum sponsors:

  • dance featuring choreographers including Josiane Antourel (Martinique), Tchekpo Dan Agbetou (Benin) and Irène Tassembedo (Burkina Faso);
  • concerts featuring musicians such as Guem (Algeria/Niger), Ballake Sissoko (Mali), Omar Sosa (Cuba), So Kalmery (DRC), Mariann Matheus (Guadeloupe), Jeff Baillard, and the group Xtrem’Jam (Martinique);
  • plays including Atterrissage (Kangni Alem), directed by Denis Mpunga, and Les Enfants de la mer, an adaptation by the Martinique playwright Jose Exelis of the work by Edwidge Danticat;
  • children’s shows (storytelling, circus, puppet shows), including Histoires du monde, performed by Naïf Theâtre, and Golotoe ou la gourde divine, by Danaye Kalanfeï; and seminars.
  • Official Website: www.dapper.com.fr (Text Source: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia)

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