How does one interpret the practice of exhibiting African objects in a museum in a national context defined by the lack of a colonial past? The collection of the Museum of African Art in Belgrade invites a different reading, in relation to the politics of Yugoslavia and the different media image it produced of the African continent. Yugoslavia was one of the initiators of the Non-Aligned Movement, established in 1961 in Belgrade. It helped politicaly, economicaly and military the anti-colonial movements of African countries and built diverse cultural ties with them. If we consider the museum as existence of more spaces and times in one space / time, it then becomes a place of remembrance: the memory of an age, the collective memory of the nation, the memory of the time of its creation, but also of variety of memories and procedures, absent as well as present.