In the heart of Mali, Dogon people inhabit a region characterized by the presence of an imposing cliff, which abruptly cuts the platitude of the savannah by its sheer relief of 300 m over about 200 Km. It is a people who live from agriculture and handicrafts, mainly of animist faith. In the town of Bandiagara, at the beginning of the road to the cliff, the wall of the Catholic Mission is fragmented to welcome the Dogon Museum, wanted by a father passionate about the culture and traditions of this people, in order to make it a starting point for the knowledge of this territory and its inhabitants.

A project led by a multidisciplinary team of architects, landscape architects, photographers, sociologists, anthropologists who are nourished by a period of immersion in the culture of this people, culminating in the cataloguing of a multitude of objects offered by the local people. On horseback from the surrounding wall are three exhibition rooms in the form of rounded blocks of different sizes, made of mud bricks according to traditional architectural codes.

In the first, illuminated by horizontal bays at human level, are the objects of everyday life. The middle room houses festive objects; it is the highest space because it contains the long wooden masks used for dancing. The ritual objects are exhibited in the last room; they are accessed through an empty and unlit ground floor, to follow the zenithal light coming from the central staircase which invites the visitor to climb on the roof, a place dedicated according to animist tradition to the conservation of these objects by the elderly. The opening wall in front of the three rooms allows interaction with the Mission space in case of representations with ritual objects.