Musée des Arts d'Afrique et d'Asie

The museum team is happy to welcome you from the beginning of May to the end of October from Tuesday to Sunday from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m.

A collection of 5,000 objects, an icon library of 1,000 visuals, the Museum's collections illustrate the artistic diversity of the civilizations of Asia and Africa but also of Oceania and America.

The Museum of African and Asian Arts belongs to the Association of the Missionary House. It is the former missionary museum, created in 1922. Most of the collections were formed from the 1920s to the 1940s with donations of non-European works from congregations, missionaries and travelers, civil servants and soldiers.

Located in the thermal district, the museum has occupied since 2002 a former hydrotherapy establishment which has become a Vichy water quality laboratory. The building, in Belle Époque style, was designed in 1881 by the architect Vianne.

Every year, new acquisitions, donations and temporary exhibitions.

With heritage or current topics, the exhibitions tell the story of the beauty of cultures and attempt to answer universal questions: on origins, the relationship to the sacred, social relations, the representation of the world, the expression of power...
Art is a way to understand the world. It opens up to dialogue and respect for differences.

Responsible for collections and exhibitions: Marie-Line Therre.
Collaborator: Miho Fressinet.

16 avenue Thermale - 03200 Vichy - FRANCE

musee-aaa@wanadoo.fr - 04 70 97 76 40

from early May to late October from Tuesday to Sunday from 14h to 18h

Open on public holidays.

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