Quai Branly Museum facts for kids

View of its African exhibits

The Musée du quai Branly is a museum in Paris. It is known in English as the Quai Branly Museum, nicknamed MQB. 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.

Images for kids

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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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  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)

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  Mask from the Pendé people of Congo (20th century)

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  Mask from Eket people, Nigeria, (20th century)

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  Guardian angel, Ethiopia (19th century)

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  Back of a seat of honor, from the Abung people of the island of Sumatra in Indonesia (19th century)

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  Figurines by Sundaribai from Surguja district in Chhattisgarh, India (20th century)

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  Ritual mask from India (20th century)

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  Robe of a dignitary, China (19th century)

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  Mayan container from Guatemala, AD 600-800

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  Aztec image of Chicomecoatl, goddess of corn

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  A heraldic mast, or totem pole, from the Nisga'a people in British Columbia, Canada (1890)

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  Decorated car from Mexico (20th century)

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  A mask from Vanuatu, from the south of the island of Malekula. (20th century)

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  Carved wooden figurines from Papua New Guinea (20th century)

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  Māori sculpture from New Zealand (1850)

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  Statue from Polynesia (1760-1860).

See also

In Spanish: Museo del muelle Branly - Jacques Chirac para niños