page_title: Mus'art Gallery
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Mus'art Gallery / History
caption_attribution_description: These are photos of the collection at the Mus'art Gallery in Cameroon. The Gallery is a content partner for the Wikipedia project called WikiAfrica. Musart Galleries have granted permission to WikiAfrica to release them on Wikipedia and have effected the CC-BY-SA license on their website Peter Musa , Director, Mus'Art Gallery, Kumbo,Cameroon
context_page_description: The Musa Heritage Gallery, is an art museum in Kumbo, Cameroon. It houses a collection of over 400 art objects that were mainly created between 1970 and 2000 and range from bamboo work to wood carvings, from basketry to pottery. Our museum is a place for exchanges and education, a place where arts open paths for better understanding of history and traditions from the Grass-fields region of Cameroon.
context_section_description: Musa Heritage Gallery  in short Mus’Art Gallery, also known as the Grassfields Museum was established in December 1996 in honour of the Cameroonian artists Daniel Kanjo Musa (1930–1995) and his eldest son John Yuniwo Musa (1956–1996).
  The Mus'Art Gallery has been active in propagating the Nso' cultural heritage. The museum has been at the forefront of promoting Nso’ traditional artistry and craftsmanship. Mus’Art Gallery has a collection of over 400
  objects most of which were created between 1970 and 2000. These varied and diverse objects range from bamboo work to wood carvings, basketry to pottery.
  The museum continues to acquire contemporary Cameroonian arts and crafts while maintaining a major focus on the Western Grass-fields region. This region is internationally renowned for having produced masterpieces of African art.
  These objects were appropriated by colonial missionaries and officers and removed from their place of origin to museums in Europe or the United States. Masterpieces of Grass-fields art are today in foreign museums. The statue of Ngonnso’ founder the Nso’ kingdom is kept in a museum in Germany. In Nso’ there is an outcry for this statue to be returned to its people.
  Mus’Art Gallery’s mission:
  propagate Nso’ cultural Mus’Art Gallery’s mission: heritage;
  preserve in response to the loss of the precious art objects so the art of the past is not lost to the region;
  support the arts and crafts of the Western Grass-fields of Cameroon;
  highlight the excellence and diversity of regional artists, past and present, so these may become known nationally and internationally;
  make the arts and crafts of this region of Cameroon known publicly in Cameroon and internationally.
caption: Peter Musa, Director, Mus'Art Gallery, Kumbo,Cameroon
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