The Musée Dapper is a museum specializing in African art. It is located in the XVIe arrondissement at 35 rue Paul Valéry, 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 (Bénin) and Irène Tassembedo
(Burkina Faso);
- concerts featuring musicians such as Guem (Algeria/Niger),
Ballaké 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 José Exélis of the work by Edwidge
Danticat;
- children’s shows (storytelling, circus, puppet shows),
including Histoires du monde, performed by Naïf Théâtre, and
Golotoé ou la gourde divine, by Danaye Kalanfeï;
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