Musée Dapper was a French museum specializing in

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

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at 35 rue Paul Valéry,

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The museum opened in 1986, as an effort of the

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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

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

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(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

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; * 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 established in 1986 1986 establishments in France Buildings and structures in the 16th arrondissement of Paris

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