Musée du quai Branly

The Musée du quai Branly in Paris, also called Musee des Arts premiers or Musée des arts et civilizations d' Afrique, d' Asie, d' Océanie et des Amériques known, the French national museum for non-European art. The exhibition is explicitly not - as is otherwise common in Europe - designed by ethnological point of view, but also emphasizes the artistic qualities of the exhibits.

Designed by the architect Jean Nouvel building is located in the 7th arrondissement of Paris, near the Eiffel Tower. It was built on the former site of the Ministère du Commerce Extérieur (Foreign Affairs Ministry ).

Opening

The museum was opened by Jacques Chirac in the presence of Kofi Annan, Rigoberta Menchú, Paul Okalik, Dominique de Villepin, Minister Lionel Jospin and Jean -Pierre Raffarin on 20 June 2006.

For the public, the museum is open since 23 June 2006.

Collections

The museum combines the previous collections of ethnology at the Musée de l' Homme ( housed in the Palais de Chaillot ) and the Musée national des arts d'Afrique et d' Océanie at the Palais de la Porte Dorée. It is issued 3,500 objects from a collection of more than 300,000 pieces.

History

Jacques Kerchache, art dealer and specializes in African art, tried in the early 1990s the "Art premier" ( coined by him term ) to gain entry to the Museum of the Louvre.

He published in 1990 in this sense, an article in the French daily newspaper Libération. In the same year he met Jacques Chirac, the then mayor of Paris know, and this could inspire premier for the type. Chirac initiated after his election as French president in 1995 together with Kerchache a department for this art direction at the Museum of the Louvre. A year later, Chirac announced a project to create a new museum that would devote themselves especially the kind premier. This plan met with criticism, for example, a strike of the employees of the Musée de l' Homme in 1999, who opposed a break-up of the collections of their museum and against the approach, the objects now priority basis and in an aesthetic aspect of the exhibition is not longer be considered only from a scientific point of view.

The museum has the status of établissement public ( German public body ). It is placed under three ministries: the Ministry of Culture and Communication ( Ministère de la culture et de la communication ), the Ministry of National Education ( Ministère de l' éducation nationale ) and the Ministry of Research ( Ministère à la recherche délégué ). The construction of the museum cost about 233 million euros.

Building and Garden

Designed by the architect Jean Nouvel Museum with its four buildings on two hectares of land between the quai Branly and rue de université a floor space of 40,600 m2. The dominant main gallery is built on stilts and crosses so seamlessly designed by the landscape architect Gilles Clément 18,000 m2 of gardens. This consists of small hills, paths, paved paths and inviting to meditation pool. It 178 trees were planted. For busy quai Branly, the plot is shielded by a huge glass wall that adjoins the plant wall of the administration building.

The four buildings are:

  • The main gallery, with a length of about 200 m, with several side rooms that are visible from the outside through colorful rectangular protuberances. Also, are housed here: an auditorium, a classroom, a reading room, space for temporary exhibitions and a restaurant. Half of the building occupies a 80m long sinusoidally curved bridge that leads to the actual starting point for the tour of the collection.
  • The building University with a souvenir or bookstore, offices and studios.
  • The administration building Branly, which extends over five floors and is covered with a 800 m² plant wall by Patrick Blanc. It is harmonious docked at the facade of the adjoining houses to the Haussmann era.
  • The auvent, with the media library and a garden terrace.

Film

  • Musée du Quai Branly. The new Ethnology Museum of Paris. Documentation, France, 2006, 90 min, directed by Guy Seligmann, Pierre- André Boutang, production: Arte France, Air Date: October 6, 2006, Summary of arte
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