A true treasure overlooks the city of Kinshasa on top of Ngaliema Hill. An exhibition room of a few dozen square meters is too small to contain the 45,000 pieces that have been collected from ...

Owing to the sheer level of detail and skill he demonstrated in these early works, the National Museum of Zaire (now the National Museum of Kinshasa) recruited the artist as a conservator of ...

He is the general director of the National Institute of the Arts, and he grinned when I read this quote back to him. “The strength of Kinshasa can be found in two places,” he told me.

Using everything from soda cans to matchboxes, the Congolese artist crafted utopian dioramas, now on display at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.

The president of the Democratic Republic of Congo will officially inaugurate a new national museum in Kinshasa on Saturday. The new facility, funded by the South Korean International Cooperation ...

Philippe earlier offered a traditional mask of the Suku people to Congo's national museum as an "indefinite loan". The mask has been held for decades by Belgium's Royal Museum for Central Africa.

Lonnie G. Bunch III to Become the Smithsonian’s 14th Secretary The founding director of the National Museum of African American History and Culture, Bunch represents the first insider to lead ...

This story appears in the September 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine. Rumble in the Gym In Kinshasa a woman punched photojournalist Pascal Maitre in the forehead. It was an accident—he ...

Yetu Gallery will open in mid-September inside the $21 million Korean-funded National Museum of the Democratic Republic of Congo in Kinshasa, which opened in 2019.

Kinshasa is awash with hopeful musicians seeking glory and good times in dusty sheds and suburban churches. This sprawling city of 8 million people may be short on electricity and running water ...

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History recognizes the life and legacy of Muhammed Ali (1942–2016), born Cassius Marcellus Clay Jan. 17, 1942, in Louisville, Ky. Ali started boxing when ...

After closing at National Harbor, the museum begins a new chapter — and an old search — back in Washington.