Musée Dapper was a French

museum A museum is an institution dedicated to displaying or Preservation (library and archive), preserving culturally or scientifically significant objects. Many museums have exhibitions of these objects on public display, and some have private colle ...

specializing in

Africa Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent after Asia. At about 30.3 million km2 (11.7 million square miles) including adjacent islands, it covers 20% of Earth's land area and 6% of its total surfac ...

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. It was opened in May 1986, and closed on 18 June 2017. The Dapper Foundation is still located at the same premises in the

16th arrondissement of Paris The 16th arrondissement of Paris (; ) is the westernmost of the 20 arrondissements of Paris, the capital city of France. Located on the city's Right Bank, it is adjacent to the 17th and 8th arrondissements to the northeast, as well as to the ...

at 35 rue Paul Valéry,

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The museum opened in 1986, as an effort of the

Olfert Dapper Olfert Dapper (January 1636 – 29 December 1689) was a Dutch physician and writer who wrote books about world history and geography although he never travelled outside the Netherlands. Biography Olfert Dapper was born in January 1636 in the J ...

Foundation, and was named in honour of a Dutch humanist who in 1668 published an encyclopaedic description of Africa. In addition to a series of art exhibitions, the museum sponsored: * dance featuring

choreographer Choreography is the art of designing sequences of movements of physical bodies (or their depictions) in which Motion (physics), motion or Visual appearance, form or both are specified. ''Choreography'' may also refer to the design itself. A chor ...

s including Josiane Antourel (Martinique), Tchekpo Dan Agbetou (Bénin) and Irène Tassembedo (Burkina Faso); * concerts featuring musicians such as Guem (Algeria/Niger),

Ballaké Sissoko Ballaké Sissoko (born 1968) is a Malian player of the kora. He has worked with Toumani Diabaté and Taj Mahal, and is a member of the group 3MA with Driss El Maloumi and Rajery. Biography Ballaké's father, Djelimady Sissoko, was a notable mu ...

(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 Edwidge Danticat (; born January 19, 1969) is a Haitian American novelist and short story writer. Her first novel, '' Breath, Eyes, Memory'', was published in 1994 and went on to become an Oprah's Book Club selection. Danticat has since written ...

; * children’s shows (storytelling, circus, puppet shows), including ''Histoires du monde'', performed by Naïf Théâtre, and ''Golotoé ou la gourde divine'', by Danaye Kalanfeï; * and seminars.

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Musée Dapper

{{Authority control Art museums and galleries in Paris African art museums Art museums and galleries established in 1986 1986 establishments in France Buildings and structures in the 16th arrondissement of Paris

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