Galleries reopen May 2025 | Michael C. Rockefeller Wing, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 Fifth Ave., Manhattan
Reopening: Arts of Africa Galleries (The Met)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced today that it will reopen its suite of galleries dedicated to the Arts of Africa on May 31, 2025. The galleries have been closed to the public since summer 2021 as part of a major redesign and renovation of the Museum’s Michael C. Rockefeller Wing.

The reenvisioned installation will reintroduce visitors to The Met’s collection of sub-Saharan African art through a selection of some 500 works organized to survey major artistic movements and living traditions from across the subcontinent. The new galleries will present original creations spanning from the Middle Ages to the present, including artworks such as a 12th-century fired clay figure shaped in Mali’s Inner Niger Delta to the fiber creation Bleu no. 1 (2014) by Abdoulaye Konaté (born 1953, Diré, Mali), a critically acclaimed innovator based in Bamako, Mali. One-third of the works, which are new acquisitions given by donors to celebrate The Met’s capital project, will be on display at The Met for the first time.

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