Culture
Arte & Craft
The Workmanship in Angola is one of the most greatest attractive of tourists, the raw material that composes the craft pieces is diversified, and goes since the wood, ebony or black stick, the bronze, metals of varies order, ivory, etc. To his creation is not merely esthetics, she has an important paper in cultural rituals, representing the life and the death, the passage of the infancy to the adult life, the celebration of a new harvest and the beginning of the station of the hunts. Each group étino-linguístico in Angola has his own original artistic lines. One of the most famous pieces that characterize the Angolan art are:
- The Thinker Cokwe, a masterpiece of harmony and symmetry of line.
- The mask female Mwana-Pwo eroded by the male dancers in his rituals of puberty.
- Polished-chromatic Masks of Kalelwa used during ceremonies of circumcision
Gallery
There exist many galleries through all the country, but the more visited by the tourists and expatriate is the Bem-Fica market (Well-Stayed) where the the paintings and different works of art are sold in the open air (informal Market), beside the beach, where you can listen the good Angolan music and have lunch in the cabins made of sheets of palm tree.
The Angolan craft can leave the country only with permission and stamp of the Ministry of the Culture.
Museums
The museum is a non profit institution, that acquires, conserves, investigates, communicates and exhibits study, education and leisure, testimonies stuff of the man and of his environment as says the director of the Museum of Anthropology, Américo Kononoca.
"The museums are source of knowledge of our culture", and that has been visited in the his majority by tourists, young and criancas during I am free times.
The museums more visited are: Museums of Natural History, of the Slavery, Forces Assembled, Saint Pedro of the Bar, of the Telecommunications, of the Kingdom of the The Congo, in Mbanza The Congo, of the Dundo, Cabinda, Lobito (Benguela) and Huíla.