The Brooklyn Museum revealed plans to renovate and build a new home for its African art collection dating back to the early 1900s, making it one of America’s oldest institutional collections of art from Africa and the diaspora it informs. The $13-million project aims to establish a dedicated 6,400-square-foot destination on the museum’s third floor, to open with a display of more than 300 artworks from antiquity to the present in the fall of 2027.

“This is more than a new collection gallery—it’s a bold reframing of how African art is understood and celebrated in American museums,” Brooklyn Museum director Anne Pasternak said in a statement.…