Website: en.museespiritain-artsafricains.fr/

Spiritan collections are an exceptional testimony to the life, traditions, art and beliefs of the people of Central Africa in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. 

The works collected over time by the Spiritans are from Gabon, Congo Brazzaville and Congo Kinshasa, and are very varied. They concern both everyday life and the Sacred, with many masks and sculptures. Among them, major works from the history of African art. Most of these objects, miraculously preserved, had hitherto remained totally
unknown both to the general public and to specialists.
 

The Spiritan Museum of African Arts is housed within the Spiritan community site of St. Joseph of Allex, in the department (county) of the Drôme.

 

Allex is a charming "hilltop village” built on a prominent hill over the Drôme valley. Located 20 minutes from Valence, the municipality has 2.500 inhabitants and enjoys a strategic location: halfway between Lyon, Grenoble and Avignon, on the north-south axis between Paris and Marseille, in the heart of a department entirely focused on tourism and nature.