The Musée d’Arts Africains, Océaniens et Amérindiens (MAAOA) is a museum in Marseille. It is located on the second floor of the Vieille Charité, a 17th-century building built to house the poor and sick of the city of Marseille. On the first floor of the building, there is also the museum dedicated to Mediterranean archaeology. Along with Paris, where the Musée du Quai Branly is located, Marseille is the only French city to host a museum dedicated to African, Oceanic, and South and North American arts. The MAAOA offers a rich collection of objects, which are both works of art and testimonies of their cultures. The museum rooms are organized according to different themes: the African room, consisting of masks, sculptures, statues, and reliquaries; the Oceania-Americas Room, consisting of 80 sculpted, modeled, painted, or engraved skulls, as well as masks and feather ornaments from South America; and finally, the Mexico Room, dedicated to a collection of folk art with more than 3000 objects, only a part of which is exhibited: masks, ceramics, trees of life, and sculptures. The museum also hosts various temporary exhibitions.

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