ART AND CULTURE, KNOWLEDGE AND ACTION, TRADITION AND INNOVATION, FOOD AND DIPLOMACY
FAO MuNe’s collection brings together stories from every corner of the world. Explore each of them through artworks - sculptures, photographs, illustrations, artifacts - as well as farming tools, crafted textiles and garments, and more, because every object has a story about food, agriculture, and the people behind them.
Here, food and agriculture find their memory and voice.
Donated by FAO’s Members, the Museum tells the diverse stories of food and agriculture, spanning from North, Central, and Latin America and the Caribbean, across Africa – from the North to sub-Saharan regions – through Europe and the Mediterranean to the Near East, and onward to Asia and the Pacific Islands, the Museum brings each region’s art and heritage to life.
The collection celebrated the enduring traditions of farmers and Indigenous Peoples, their practices, the importance of agricultural heritage, and the colourful culinary cultures across the world.
Artists in focus
Artists from across the globe come together in this collection, reflecting the shared language of art. Discover the contributors featured throughout the Museum, where the works of Michelangelo Pistoletto and Pablo Atchugarry sit alongside those of artists and creative voices from around the world.
Peace with Nature
The installation by Uruguayan sculptor Pablo Atchugarry seeks to answer a vital question: How can humanity reconcile with the environment? Through a century-old olive tree, it speaks of fragility, resilience and the hope for harmony.
Cultivating the Third Paradise
Italian artist Michelangelo Pistoletto invites us to reimagine balance between humanity and the planet, symbolized in his artwork by three interlinked circles: nature, artifice, and a third space of harmony.
Maize Is Our Plumb Line
Mexican artist Betsabeé Romero transforms maize into the plumb line guiding us home. Sacred in Mesoamerican origin legend, it embodies ancestral resilience, calling us to reseed the world and be reborn.
Knowledge and Heritage
Treasures of the Library
Listen to the voices of great thinkers who live at the heart of our library collections. Gain a glimpse into the knowledge that drives global food security and shapes sustainable agriculture through a curated collection of rare books and incunabula dating back to the 15th century.
FAO Library
Indigenous Peoples
The Hope Room presents a selection of objects and cultural expressions from seven Indigenous socio-cultural regions. Each artifact embodies living food and knowledge systems rooted in ancestral practices, spirituality, and reciprocal relationships with nature.
HOPE