Quai Branly Museum

Sculpture of Poubi Lai, being displayed in the Quai Branly Museum in 2010.

View of its African exhibits

The Quai Branly Museum, known in French as the Musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac (French pronunciation: [myze dy ke bʁɑ̃li ʒak ʃiʁak]), is a museum in Paris. It displays art and culture from indigenous civilisations of Africa, America, Asia and Oceania. Quai Branly opened on 23 June 2006. It holds the collections of the old Musée national des Arts d'Afrique et d'Océanie, which is now closed. It contains 267,000 objects in its permanent collection. Of these, 3500 items are on display.

Quai Branly Museum Media

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  A moving stream of words, called "The River", a site specific art work by Charles Sandison, flows down the winding ramp that leads from the entrance of the museum to the main galleries

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  Musée du quai Branly under construction, May 2000

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  A Moai ancestor's head from Easter Island (11th–15th century), carried to France in 1872 by the French Rear-Admiral Lapelin, now in the entrance hall of the museum

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  Schoolchildren visiting the Americas gallery, seen from the mezzanine

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  Plan of the Musée du Quai Branly, Paris, France.*References: official website of the Musée du Quai Branly * Le jardin: Info · Plan * The garden: Info ·

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  The main galleries and the mezzanine of the museum, connected by a winding ramp

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  A winding path in the north garden of the Quai Branly museum. The glass wall blocks the noise of traffic on the quai.

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  The library of the Musée du quai Branly, facing the garden

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  A reliquary from the Sango people of Gabon (19th century)

Other websites

• Musée du quai Branly Archived 2015-10-28 at the Wayback Machine (site in French, English and Spanish)