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Google Arts and Culture launches Mali Magic

You can view an array of manuscripts, music, art and heritage sites

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by The Star

News13 March 2022 - 10:52
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In Summary


• It aims to preserve and showcase Mali’s historic and contemporary art and culture

Map of Mali

Kenyans who have embraced e-tourism have a reason to smile after Mali's heritage of music, buildings and contemporary art, spanning 9,000 years, was digitised and uploaded onto the Google Art and Culture online archive.

'Mali Magic', a digital treasure trove, aims to preserve and showcase Mali’s historic and contemporary art and culture.

This will enrich GAC's earlier works, which saw Kenya's museums, prehistoric sites as well as cultural knowledge digitised and uploaded onto the GAC site.

A long-term partnership between the Ministry of Culture, The National Museums of Kenya and GAC recently launched 61 stories of Kenya’s superheroes, covering all 44 officially registered communities.

With the launch of Mali Magic, people from all over the world can view an array of manuscripts, music, art and heritage sites.

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