Musée de l'Homme
The Musée de l' Homme ( " Museum of Man " ) is a museum of history and anthropology in Paris. It is located in the Palais de Chaillot ( Métro: Trocadéro ).
History and Significance
The museum is the result of which was founded in 1878 by Ernest Hamy Musée d' ethnography du Trocadéro, founded in 1937 by Paul Rivet at the Paris World Exhibition new. It built great prehistoric and ethnographic collections (Africa, Arctic regions, Asia, America - particularly the art of the Maya and Aztecs, and discoveries about the evolution of man ) on. The museum was one of the most important libraries ( 180,000 volumes) to the fields of anthropology, ethnology and history.
The ethnological collections in 2006 were in the possession of the Musée du quai Branly on. This left stocks prehistory and scientific anthropology. The Musée de l' Homme is now a part of the National Museum of Natural History ( Muséum national d' histoire naturelle).
New 2009-2014
In July 2008, the French government decided to spend 50 million euros for the renovation of the museum. The money will be used for an architectural redesign and a modernized museum concept.
The renovation is scheduled to begin in early 2009; in 2014 the museum for visitors to be reopened. 2500 m² of exhibition space will be available for the existing of some 30,000 exhibits permanent exhibition, contributed an additional 1,000 m² will be used for temporary exhibitions. The conversion is designed by the architect Olivier Brochet, Emmanuel Lajus and Christine Pueyo from Bordeaux and from Emmanuel Nebout from Montpellier. The group won the 2006 tender competition. Besides more space, the new museum will also offer more brightness. Light from the dome by flooding the room, as it is dispensed with false ceilings.
The new museum will house two large sections: Prehistory ( history ) under the leadership of François Semah and Hommes, nature, sociétés (human, natural, companies) under the direction of Serge Bahuchet. Project manager for the redesign is Jean -Pierre mohena. In both departments a total of 160 scientists are researching. The museum is devoted to both scientific research and the public work. The goal is to " present to the audience the great saga of man from its origins to today and to treat all that is specific to humans: its evolution, its biology, its various societies, its interactions with its environment and its current situation, " said Jean-Pierre mohena.