Below is a selective list of ongoing and upcoming exhibitions of African, Native and Precolumbian American, and Pacific art held in European museums.
AFRIKAMUSEUM (Berg-en-Dal, Netherlands)
- Congo, Nature and Culture (through August 31)
- Musical instruments and ethnographical objects made from calabash (May 7-July 16, 2006) -- Held in conjunction with the museum's Calabash Festival, May 7, 2006
- Headdreses : Collections of the Royal Museum for Central Africa (fall 2006)
MUSEE ROYAUX D'ART ET D'HISTOIRE (Brussels)
- Les maitres de 'art precolumbien: la collectin Dora et Paul Janssen (opens Sept. 15, 2006)
NAPRSTEK MUSEUM (Prague)
- Tapa, mats and wickerwork in Pacific Islands (extended to October 10, 2006)
MUSEUM OF CULTURES (Helsinki)
- Traces of Congo: the Nordic countries in Congo, Congo in the Nordic Countries (through October 8, 2006)
MUSEE DAPPER (Paris)
- Masques, 50 visages (through July 13, 2006)
LINDEN MUSEUM STUTTGART
- Contempoary art by Australian aboriginal artists from the Peter W. Klein collection (through July 9, 2006)
MUSEUM DER KULTUREN DER WELT (Frankfurt)
- Hautzeichen -- Körperbilder (through September 9, 2007)
- Augenblicke, Keramik der Moche und Shipibo (extended to September 3, 2006)
RAUTENSTRAUCH-JOEST-MUSEUM (Koln)
- Alles unter einem Hut - Kopfbedeckungen aus Afrika, Asien und Ozeanien (extended to August 27, 2006)
- Wüste im Uberfluss, Kultur- und Landschaftswandel in Afrika (opens April 22, 2007)
MUSEUM OF ETHNOGRAPHY (Budapest)
- With Pipe, Drum, and Didgeridoo .. (through November 4, 2006)
MUSEUM NUSANTARA (Delft)
- Van souvenir tot kunstobjekt, art-decobeelden van Bali 1930-1970 (through August 27, 2006)
RIJKSMUSEUM VOOR VOLKENKUNDE (Leiden)
- Australië, het land en de mensen (through August 27, 2006)
TROPENMUSEUM (Amsterdam)
- Wereld van Weefsels - Het Batakvolk in Beeld (through July 2, 2006)
MUSEO DE AMERICA (Madrid)
- Exposicion de arte contemporaneo angoleno: Angola, tonos y texturas en el Museo de America (pdf) (through September 3, 2006)
MUSEE D'ETHNOGRAPHIE DE GENEVE
- La fibre des ancêtres: Trésors textiles d’Indonésie de la collection Georges Breguet (through December 31, 2006)
MUSEUM DER KULTUREN (Basel)
- The "Other" in Perspective. Carl and Georges Passavant: Travel photographs from Africa and China 1883-1889 (through November 12, 2006)
VOLKERKUNDE DER UNIVERSITAT ZURICH
- Maya-Textilien aus Guatemala: Kleider fur die Seele (through January 28, 2007)
PITT RIVERS MUSEUM (Oxford)
- Treasured textiles - cloth and clothing around the world (through April 22, 2007)
SAINSBURY CENTER FOR VISUAL ARTS (Norwich)
- Pacific encounters: art and divinity in Polynesia 1760-1860 (through August 13, 2006)
UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE MUSEUM OF ARCHAEOLOGY AND ANTHROPOLOGY
- Pasifika styles (through February 2008)
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