African Heritage Documentation & Research Centre
Preserving Africa's
Material Heritage
300,000+ records across all archive types.
Our Mission
Centralising Knowledge of African Cultures
Founded in 2016 in Brussels, AHDRC is a non-profit dedicated to documenting, preserving, and facilitating scholarly research on classical sub-Saharan African material heritage.
The Archive
An Unparalleled Collection
The most comprehensive online database of classical sub-Saharan African art, including published and unpublished material from institutions and private collections worldwide.
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