More than 12,000 artworks spanning more than 1,000 years of African history include a variety of media from across the continent.
More than 600,000 items of visual material, including rare collections of glass plate negatives, lantern slides, stereographs, postcards, maps, and engravings on the history and cultures of Africa
More than 60,000 volumes covering
– all aspects of African visual arts, including sculpture, painting, printmaking, pottery, textiles, crafts, popular culture, photography, architecture, rock art, and archaeology
– supporting collections in African ethnography, musicology, performing arts, theater, cinema, oral traditions, religion, creative writing, and arts in the African diaspora
– 4,900 files on contemporary African art and artists
– a growing collection of African artists’ books
