Amazigh heritage honored at the New Museum of the IMA in Paris
The tangible and intangible Amazigh heritage is honored at the new Museum of the Institut du Monde Arabe (IMA) in Paris, which opens to the public in February, the management of the IMA said on Tuesday.
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Thirty objects relating to everyday life of the Berbers as the original inhabitants of North Africa, are highlighted in this new museum, but all are discussed in a thematic approach.
"The aim is to reach out to men and society, not by following a traditional chronological approach, but a path-drive and ordered by themes," the chief curator and head of the Heritage proposed redesign of the museum, Marie Foissy said to APS.
She said all the objects in Berber culture are present all along the way. "This is not a community approach, but to present, through objects, an entire culture of the Arab world today, as a whole," she said.
Berber objects in the exhibition are discussed in the five themes of this museum, which are Tazlaft (dish), the ancient cosmogonies and scenery like Taftilt, a kind of candle in terracotta, from Kabylie (Algeria), and Tifinagh inscriptions through which are discussed include the age of this writing that relates to the prehistory and which survives today through the language of the Tuareg (Berber North African Sahara and northern Sahel).
According to the same charge, the objects mentioned in themes such as "Arabia, the birthplace of a common heritage," the sacred and the divine figures, the languages and scripts of the Gulf, and the nomadic Tuareg, were previously stored in the Branly Museum in Paris.
For proponents of the new museum, the aim is to bring together in one place "crumb of information in different departments of the Louvre and the Quai Branly, which "lacked clarity".
"Through this museum, the goal is not to draw upon all Arab countries that are represented by objects, but to evoke the great cultures and peoples that make up the diversity of societies in the Arab world," said Ms. Foissy, evoking the ethno-linguistic diversity of ancient peoples such as the Berbers, Kurds and Assyrio-Syriac Chaldeans.
The collection of exhibits in the new museum was not completebecause of the changes that have occurred recently, the Arab world, she lamented, noting however that most of the artifacts on display are drawn from " all over Algeria and other countries in the region. "
According to its designers, the museum meets the desire for any visitor wishing to discover the culture of societies in the Arab world in its origins, development and continuity of living roots.
"The aim is to reach out to men and society, not by following a traditional chronological approach, but a path-drive and ordered by themes," the chief curator and head of the Heritage proposed redesign of the museum, Marie Foissy said to APS.
She said all the objects in Berber culture are present all along the way. "This is not a community approach, but to present, through objects, an entire culture of the Arab world today, as a whole," she said.
Berber objects in the exhibition are discussed in the five themes of this museum, which are Tazlaft (dish), the ancient cosmogonies and scenery like Taftilt, a kind of candle in terracotta, from Kabylie (Algeria), and Tifinagh inscriptions through which are discussed include the age of this writing that relates to the prehistory and which survives today through the language of the Tuareg (Berber North African Sahara and northern Sahel).
According to the same charge, the objects mentioned in themes such as "Arabia, the birthplace of a common heritage," the sacred and the divine figures, the languages and scripts of the Gulf, and the nomadic Tuareg, were previously stored in the Branly Museum in Paris.
For proponents of the new museum, the aim is to bring together in one place "crumb of information in different departments of the Louvre and the Quai Branly, which "lacked clarity".
"Through this museum, the goal is not to draw upon all Arab countries that are represented by objects, but to evoke the great cultures and peoples that make up the diversity of societies in the Arab world," said Ms. Foissy, evoking the ethno-linguistic diversity of ancient peoples such as the Berbers, Kurds and Assyrio-Syriac Chaldeans.
The collection of exhibits in the new museum was not completebecause of the changes that have occurred recently, the Arab world, she lamented, noting however that most of the artifacts on display are drawn from " all over Algeria and other countries in the region. "
According to its designers, the museum meets the desire for any visitor wishing to discover the culture of societies in the Arab world in its origins, development and continuity of living roots.
Source : https://www.marocafrik.com/english/Amazigh-heritag...