Location for art lovers
For the live of nature,art and wish to visitsl some original and ancient art sites in Nigeria,there come along in this piece/fold and let's explore places where art is lived and breathed as a way of life. the truth is various of natural museums exist in the country but let us examine natural sites where art can be seen and touched in their natural array.
a) nok terracotta village
It was a forgotten and dead civilization but it was revived with the accidental discovery of buried figurines and art depicting ancient civilization in 1928.radio-carbon and thermo-luminescence test reveal that artifacts found at the two archeological sites in nok village date back to 2000 to 2500 years ago making the artifact and the extinct civilization that forged them the oldest in west africa.
Nok village is situated in the northern part of Nigeria,kafancha in Kaduna state , then you take a vehicle to the village.
b) Susanne Wenger's cultural groove in osogbo
One of the best and historical place you can visit for visual art in nigeria is the Susanne Wenger's cultural art groove in Osogbo Osun state of Nigeria,people from every angle in the world are aware of the annual Osun Osogbo festival but no one talk about the the festival without correlating the influence of austria-born Susanne Wenger adunni olorisha,the well-known yeye Osun,who uphold the ancestral worship of the Osogbo river and made hundreds of life sized art and status in cultural grooves that give the place a occult spirit, the hundreds of status and figurines made by adunni olorisha yeye Osun(mother of water)ontinue to attract tourist and art lover from around the world
c)Igbo -ukwu terracotta
the Igbo ukwu is situated in eastern part of Nigeria anambra in the early 1940's by accident and the metal works are bronze works which are similar with that of ancient ile-ife bronze and art works decorated with irony and precious stone.
art lover can visit these places to see some of these ancient works of art