Overview

Bët-bi is a new museum and center for culture and community in Senegal being developed by The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation and Le Korsa. Due to open in 2025, the museum will be a living and breathing institution with art as its focal point and offer a dedicated education programme with a variety of initiatives aimed at engaging local and national communities with art from all corners of the globe. Bët-bi – which means “the eye” in Wolof – will be constructed on a site in the vicinity of Kaolack situated in the Senegambia region of West Africa which is renowned for the remarkable ancient stone megaliths that proliferate across this area and includes four Unesco World Heritage sites.