International Journal of Art and Art History

Yemisi Shyllon Museum of Art: A New Development in the Lagos Art World
Tobenna Okwuosa

Abstract
The Yemisi Shyllon Museum of Art (YSMA) located within the premises of the Pan-Atlantic University, Ibeju-Lekki, Lagos is the first privately built and funded university museum in Nigeria. It provides the much needed well-run museum in the Lagos art world that has become one of the leading, fastest-growing art worlds on the African continent. The museum has a large collection of traditional, modern and contemporary artworks by mostly Nigerian artists. Most of the works were donated by Prince Yemisi Shyllon, an avid art collector and patron, who built the museum. YSMA was opened to the public in 2020 with two exhibitions, Making Matters: Materiality and Technology in Nigerian Art and Mirroring Man: Society and Politics in Nigerian Art. Being a university museum, the main aim of YSMA is educational: to use the artworks in its collection to teach. This article uses the works in the museum"s collection to construct a brief narrative of modern and contemporary art practice in Nigeria.

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