located in Namibia, Africa, … has as its purpose, the task to solicit donations of human sub-conscious, to store them,
to catalogue them and to make them available for study and research.
But why in Namibia? Well just think for a moment. The materials (human sub-conscious) to be deposited in this
museum are simply immaterial. Thus, they exist everywhere and nowhere at the same time. So, why not select an
obscure landmark in a country, not on the major tourist routes, as the principal entrance to this museum.
(Conceptually, to appreciate this museum and its collections(s) it is not necessary to ever visit the physical place,
designated as the “Public Entrance”.) Also since we are talking about “art”…did you know that the “Charcoal
drawing of an antelope” (charcoal and ochre on shale – 9.5×12.5/1.5 cm) and the “Charcoal drawing of
animal-human figure” (charcoal on shale – 11x8x9.5 cm)–both in the State Museum of Namibia, Windhoek–are
now considered by scholars to have been created sometime between 27,000 and 25,500 years before now! This
suggests that these “drawings” are probably the oldest “art works” yet discovered anywhere!
By the way, the State Museum of Namibia has a robust web presence, as this Google search indicates, although it doesn’t appear the above-mentioned charcoal drawings are depicted anywhere…
