A private museum funded by Yemisi Shyllon, one of Africa's biggest art collectors, recently opened in Lagos, Nigeria. It houses more than 1,000 artworks, including (clockwise from left): a full-length, bronze-clad royal figurine of the Ooni of Ife, dated to the 14th-century Ife Kingdom in Nigeria; an Igbo-Ukwu bronze ceremonial vessel dated to the 10th century; a bronze pelican by the Nigerian sculptor Ben Osawe; and a Benin royal head dated to the 15th- or 16th-century Benin Kingdom in Nigeria.
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