Asiatic collections of the Musée de l'Homme (Museum of Mankind) in Paris amount to 40.000 items, art objets from the XIX and XXe century as well as objects from everyday life. Most of the items were collected, in thefield, since 1880, by travellers, missionnaries and members of colonial administration. Since 1925, a new generation of professionnal researchers have collected thousands of items during the course of their field studies. The Musée de l'Homme do not get any subsides from the French government, relying only on the budget provided by the visitors' entrance. Now, the French government is planning to build, at a cost of 1,5 billion francs (about 200.000.000 US dollars) a new Primitive Art Museum, to exhibit only 3.000 items, out the...
More than 2250 Coniagui, Bassari and Bedik artefacts entered the collections of Musée de l'Homme, th...
Though their great quality and richness, the African collections of the Natural History Museum of Ly...
In Europe, the second half of the Nineteenth Century was the golden age of collecting and museum fou...
Asiatic collections of the Musée de l'Homme (Museum of Mankind) in Paris amount to 40.000 items, art...
Christian Pelras The ethnographie collections of artefacts originating from the Malay world, or "Ins...
Christian Pelras The ethnographie collections of artefacts originating from the Malay world, or "Ins...
International audienceJean Moulin University beholds a collection of 300 tools, weapons and daily li...
International audienceJean Moulin University beholds a collection of 300 tools, weapons and daily li...
Cabinets of curiosities borned in XVIe century. Their history is complexed and bad known. Until XIXe...
During the French Revolution in its broadest sense (i.e. between 1789 and 1804) a wealth of confisca...
During the French Revolution in its broadest sense (i.e. between 1789 and 1804) a wealth of confisca...
International audienceJean Moulin University beholds a collection of 300 tools, weapons and daily li...
International audienceJean Moulin University beholds a collection of 300 tools, weapons and daily li...
International audienceJean Moulin University beholds a collection of 300 tools, weapons and daily li...
International audienceJean Moulin University beholds a collection of 300 tools, weapons and daily li...
More than 2250 Coniagui, Bassari and Bedik artefacts entered the collections of Musée de l'Homme, th...
Though their great quality and richness, the African collections of the Natural History Museum of Ly...
In Europe, the second half of the Nineteenth Century was the golden age of collecting and museum fou...
Asiatic collections of the Musée de l'Homme (Museum of Mankind) in Paris amount to 40.000 items, art...
Christian Pelras The ethnographie collections of artefacts originating from the Malay world, or "Ins...
Christian Pelras The ethnographie collections of artefacts originating from the Malay world, or "Ins...
International audienceJean Moulin University beholds a collection of 300 tools, weapons and daily li...
International audienceJean Moulin University beholds a collection of 300 tools, weapons and daily li...
Cabinets of curiosities borned in XVIe century. Their history is complexed and bad known. Until XIXe...
During the French Revolution in its broadest sense (i.e. between 1789 and 1804) a wealth of confisca...
During the French Revolution in its broadest sense (i.e. between 1789 and 1804) a wealth of confisca...
International audienceJean Moulin University beholds a collection of 300 tools, weapons and daily li...
International audienceJean Moulin University beholds a collection of 300 tools, weapons and daily li...
International audienceJean Moulin University beholds a collection of 300 tools, weapons and daily li...
International audienceJean Moulin University beholds a collection of 300 tools, weapons and daily li...
More than 2250 Coniagui, Bassari and Bedik artefacts entered the collections of Musée de l'Homme, th...
Though their great quality and richness, the African collections of the Natural History Museum of Ly...
In Europe, the second half of the Nineteenth Century was the golden age of collecting and museum fou...