Repositories

  • Contact Information

    • Name:

      Musée Régional André-Grenard Matsoua

    • Postal Address:

      B.P. 85
      Kinkala
      Congo, Republic of

    • Telephone:

      242-852014

    • Facsimile:

      242-815047 S/C Germain KEOUA, SDV Maya-Maya

    • Director:

      M. Dias-Théodore Dianzinga

    • Year founded:

      1878

  • Collections

    • Type of repository:

      Museum

    • Types of source material:

      Artifacts
      Personal papers

    • Size:

      The museum had (before the recent pillaging) a collection of 807 pieces. The ethnographic objects from Nkankata currently include about 5,000 objects.

    • Holdings:

      The museum collection was composed of paintings on canvas and ethnographic objects related to everyday life in a rural environment. The collection of stored objects, by contrast is composed of ritual objects, statuettes, old currency, clay pots, beads, blankets, ritual shields.

    • Receiving new material?

      No

  • Access Conditions

    • Access conditions:

      Free

    • Finding tools:

      Accession lists or registers
      Inventories

    • Copier available?:

      No

  • Repository publications:

  • References:

    Dias Théodore Dianzinga, "Une collection peu ordinaire," <I>ICCROM-PREMA Newsletter</I> 6 (1996): 16-19. <p> Dias Théodore Dianzinga, "Le Musée Régional André Grenard MATSOUA," <I>West African Museums Program Bulletin</I> 5 (1994): 68-69.