After sifting through the curio stalls or catching an exhibition at the Museum Africa ( www.museumafrica.org) on Newtown Square, meander east into the old City Centre.

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Lastly, the partnership will explore modalities for facilitating internship exchanges between museums in Africa and international universities offering museum studies graduate coursework.

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Theodore Trefon is senior researcher at the Royal Museum for Central Africa and author of the blog Congo Masquerade: The political culture of aid inefficiency and reform failure.

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The National Museum of African Art contains an excellent, if West Africa-heavy, collection of both traditional and modern art from the continent.

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It was chosen from a shortlist of four nominations that also included Mr Vassilios Peltikoglou from Greece, the Brukenthal Museum Library in Romania and the National Archives of South Africa, all of which were judged to have made an important contribution to the field of preservation of documentary heritage.

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In addition, UNESCO is building on its existing partnership with GOOGLE to enlarge the scope of the AFRICOM Membership Directory to include more information on museums in Africa in order to elaborate a mapping of museums in Africa on the general GOOGLE site and a more detailed mapping that includes museum professionals and their specialities on the AFRICOM web site.

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The occasion was a reception at the Joslyn Art Museum to celebrate the riveting pictures Buffett's son Howard has taken in Africa.

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Once it is open, the organisation aims to transform itself from being a mere museum to becoming an African cultural centre, bringing together under one roof 18 other Africa-themed organisations offering dance, theatre and music.

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Or go on a guided tour of the Karen Blixen Museum, once home to the Danish author most well known for her book Out of Africa.

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