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Liz Dawson

WASHINGTON, US - Obituary: Warren M. Robbins, founder of the Museum of African Art

Posted on December 8, 2008 at 6:39 AM.

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Warren M. Robbins, founder of the Museum of African Art, forerunner to the Smithsonian's National Museum of African Art, died Dec. 4 at George Washington University Hospital of complications from a fall at his home last month. He was 85. Robbins took an interest in African art after a trip as a cultural attache in Germany, where he bought 32 pieces before buying a former Capitol Hill home of Frederick Douglass to display the art.
 
Warren M. Robbins, founder of the Museum of African Art, dies at 85
 
 

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