WHY A MUSEUM OF AFRICAN ART? Why Musée de la Fondation Zinsou?

Culture is a right and can not and should not be considered a luxury. It is essential today to allow children and adults in Benin to have access to culture. The museum is a proposition open to all, which goes out to meet the people. Four million people have visited the Zinsou Foundation exhibitions in Cotonou for 8 years.

Africa must be given a place that is emblematic of its creation. The Cairo Museum or IFAN in Dakar are names that resonate but evoke history; Africa lacks a museum that embodies contemporaneity. The creation of a museum in Ouidah aims to give a new visibility to the continent as a real player in the world of art. It can also allow outsiders to have a new perspective on a part of the world that is too often in the limelight only when terrible events occur.