Marseille is the only place with Paris where you can visit a museum dedicated to African Arts, from Oceania and America. The MAAOA offers a rich collection of art objects that are both cultural witness and works of art in their own right.
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The permanent collection is divided in 3 parts.Each born from an original collection.
African room: you can see in this collection hundreds of masks, statues and sculptures ( given by Pierre Guerre, huge collection of African arts), He admires this continents since the age of 12).
Oceania-America room: made up of a series of 80 skulls and masks collected in the wide world. Objects from collections in Vanuatu and beautiful Ameridian feather ornaments.