Museums - Musée des Arts d'Afrique et d'Asie

Founded in 1923, this museum has been showing its ethnographic collection in a new space since 2002, where it emphasizes African material. Most of the pieces on display were brought to Vichy by missionaries who came to this famous spa town for health reasons. The Association de la Maison du Missionaire, which runs the museum, has them on display to improve public understanding of non-European artistic patrimony. The new exhibition is thematically arranged, with sections on social life, symbols of power, African religions, and ritual dances.