There is some speculation that the museum also plays a key political role for France. Il n'existe pas de n o 69 du quai Branly, la numérotation passant directement du n o 67 bis au n o 71. Quai Branly začíná na náměstí Place de la Résistance, kde na něj proti proudu navazuje Quai d'Orsay a končí na náměstí Place des Martyrs-Juifs-du-Vélodrome-d'Hiver, odkud dále pokračuje Quai de Grenelle. (20th century), Carved wooden figurines from Papua New Guinea (20th century). Alkuperäistaiteen museo tai Afrikan, Aasian, Oseanian ja Amerikan taiteen ja kulttuurin museo) sijaitsee Pariisin VII:ssä kaupunginosassa tiloissa, jotka kuuluivat aiemmin maan ulkomaankauppaministeriölle. The museum has a library with 3 main departments: Many of the specialized scientific journals, data bases, documents, visual or audiovisual objects can be accessed online. Labels are almost hidden, and plaques with historical context are brief and generalized, in a way that seems to emphasize the aesthetic qualities of the displays rather than their cultural history. Musée du quai Branly (Musée des Arts premiers tai Arts et civilisations d'Afrique, d'Asie, d'Océanie et des Amériques, suom. The Musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac , located in Paris, France, is a museum featuring the indigenous art and cultures of Africa, Asia, Oceania, and the Americas. Instead of straight paths and a long axis to the entrance, the paths wind through the gardens, with no apparent destination. the book collection, with 2 reading rooms—a research reading room on the top floor and a popular reading room on the ground floor, the picture collection with photographs and drawings, Jolly, Margaret. The museum collection comprises more than a million objects (ethnographic objects, photographs, documents, etc. This report[13] argued that artifacts that were taken unlawfully throughout the French colonial period should be returned, if the country in question asks for them. Whether this will lead to a new path remains to be seen. La collection de sculptures du musée du Quai Branly, Musée du Quai Branly, Paris, 2005, (ISBN 9782915133097), 192 p. Ubicación [ editar ] Se encuentra en París , en un edificio muy cercano a la Torre Eiffel y al Museo Guimet de artes asiáticas, en el terreno que anteriormente había ocupado el Ministerio de Comercio Exterior francés. Since 2003, the Te Papa Tongarewa, New Zealand's national museum, has embarked on a program of requesting the return of Maori remains held in institutions around the world. The site selected for the new museum, covering an area of 25,000 square meters, was occupied by a collection of buildings belonging to the Ministry of Reconstruction and Urbanism. Zostało otwarte w 2006 roku dzięki inicjatywie prezydenta Francji Jacques'a Chiraca . Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Given this supposed motivation behind the museum, there has been some controversy among intellectuals as to what the museum's ultimate purpose is, and whether or not the presentation of the galleries actually achieves this purpose. Quai Branly opened on 23 June 2006. At the time the museum opened in 2007, France was still attempting to reconcile increasing ethnic diversity among the nation's population within its republican model of assimilation, and even homogeneity. Another group of items presents the role of women voyagers in the 18th and 19th centuries. It allows several configurations thanks to acoustic curtains conceived by Issey Miyake. Quai Branly začína na námestí Place de la Résistance, kde naň proti prúdu nadväzuje Quai d’Orsay, a končí na námestí Place des Martyrs-Juifs-du-Vélodrome-d'Hiver, odkiaľ pokračuje Quai de Grenelle. jeudi, vendredi et samedi de 11h à 21h By contrast, its temporary exhibits attempt to overcome such a dilemma and to open new venues through the display of objects in an historical and cross-cultural perspective. The museum has published many catalogues and various other publications, among them: It has also co-published several noted ethnomusicology audio sets with Frémeaux & Associés, including booklets in both French and English, among which: Vacillation over the museum's name reflected tensions about its scope and viewpoint. "Becoming a 'new' museum? https://simple.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Quai_Branly_Museum&oldid=6204430, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License. Themes of the exhibits in the summer of 2014 included the history and culture of tattoos, propaganda posters from Vietnam, and an exhibit about the influence of the culture of Oceania on American popular culture in the 20th century. Musée du quai Branly, etnografiskt museum i Paris, öppnat i juni 2006.Arkitekt är Jean Nouvel.Museet ligger i 7:e arrondissementet, i närheten av Eiffeltornet.. Källor. Musée du quai Branly (česky Muzeum na nábřeží Branly) je muzeum mimoevropského umění v Paříži.Je zasvěceno umění z Asie, Afriky, Oceánie a severní i jižní Ameriky.Nachází se na levém břehu řeky Seiny na Quai Branly v 7. obvodu.Projekt muzea inicioval tehdejší francouzský prezident Jacques Chirac.Autorem stavby je architekt Jean Nouvel. Le musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac est un établissement public national à caractère administratif, placé sous la tutelle conjointe du ministère de la Culture et du ministère de l'Enseignement supérieur, de la Recherche et de l'Innovation. "It can't be decontextualised into a glorious otherness". This living wall of greenery covers 800 m2 of the façades of the museum, and 150 m2 of the interior walls. [3] Blick vom Eiffelturm nach Südwesten auf Gleise des Bahnhofs Champ de Mars und Pont de Passy , heute Pont de Bir-Hakeim (Anfang 20. From this perspective, the museum can be seen as a symbolic effort to reach out to non-Western peoples of the world, while also proclaiming French openness to the world. The Portuguese anthropologist Nélia Dias[27] grapples with this question by examining the tension between museum anthropology and general museum practices. ミッテラン時代の1995年より計画が開始され、2006年 6月23日に開館した。 ), of which 3,500 are on display at any given time, in both permanent and temporary thematic exhibits. The manifesto was signed by three hundred artists, writers, philosophers, anthropologists and art historians. It contains 267,000 objects in its permanent collection. Its most unusual feature is the green wall, or wall of vegetation, composed of living plants, on the north side of the building, facing the Seine. The place is briefly thrilling, as spectacle, but brow-slappingly wrongheaded....The place simply makes no sense. Musée du quai Branly – muzeum sztuki kultur pozaeuropejskich, zlokalizowane w Paryżu przy Quai Branly 37, niedaleko Wieży Eiffla. Museet ligger ved bredden av Seinen, på stedet som kalles quay Branly.Dette stedsnavnet inngår i museets navn. El Museo du Quai Branly de París posee una colección de más de 300.000 piezas de arte étnico procedentes de África, Asia, América y Oceanía. Musée du quai Branly, or the Quai Branly Museum, nicknamed MQB, in Paris France. A proposal for such a museum had been made by the ethnologist and art collector Jacques Kerchache in a 1990 manifesto in the newspaper Libération, called "The masterpieces of the entire world are born free and equal." Op 23 juni 2006 werd het officieel geopend door de toenmalige Franse president Jacques Chirac . Thirty different galleries are placed on the north side, which are visible on the outside of the structure as boxes of different colors. Musée du quai Branly, or the Quai Branly Museum, nicknamed MQB, in Paris France. Notre fonds de dotation soutient la restauration d’instruments de musique rares et précieux. è.c) et dans l’espace. Musée du quai Branly. Temporary exhibits at the Museum touch upon a wide variety of subjects and themes. Annonce Localisation Expérience; Chargé.e d’expositions itinérantes H/F 31-12-2020 - Contractuel en CDD: Paris: 3 à 5 ans: Chef.fe de projet travaux scénographiques des expositions temporaires H/F In the original project for the museum, 7,500 square meters of the 25,000-square-meter site were set aside for gardens. [14] Of the 90,000 sub-Saharan artifacts in France, 70,000 are in the archives or public exhibition of the Quai Branly Museum in Paris. Musée du quay Branly Jacques Chirac – i det daglige kun omtalt som Quay Branly – er et antropologisk museum i den franske hovedstaden Paris.. Navnet. This auditorium is used for concerts, film shows or public conferences. Amoureux de l’art et des cultures, que vous habitiez Paris où que vous soyez de passage pour quelques jours, le Musée du Quai Branly – Jacques Chirac est sans aucun doute à inscrire sur votre liste d’endroits à visiter ! Musée du quai Branly. La collection de sculptures du musée du Quai Branly, Musée du Quai Branly, Paris, 2005, (ISBN 9782915133097), 192 p. Ubicación [ editar ] Se encuentra en París , en un edificio muy cercano a la Torre Eiffel y al Museo Guimet de artes asiáticas, en el terreno que anteriormente había ocupado el Ministerio de Comercio Exterior francés. Among its collections of ethnographic objects from Africa, Asia, America and Oceania, the museum has notable collections of objects, gathered during the French colonization of North America, from Quebec to Louisiana, in the 17th and 18th centuries. V roku 1941 bola časť nábrežia premenovaná na Quai Branly na počesť francúzskeho fyzika Édouarda Branlyho (1844 – 1940). Le musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac abrite une collection remarquable de 300.000 œuvres très variées, de par leurs origines, leur composition et leur ancienneté. Palais de l'Alma; Musée du quai Branly Il occupe la place de l'ancien ministère du Commerce extérieur. [10][11] In June 2016 "Jacques Chirac" was appended to the museum's name.[12]. Musée du quai Branly – muzeum sztuki kultur pozaeuropejskich, zlokalizowane w Paryżu przy Quai Branly 37, niedaleko Wieży Eiffla.. Zostało otwarte w 2006 roku dzięki inicjatywie prezydenta Francji Jacques'a Chiraca.. Muzeum posiada około 267 000 eksponatów z których 3500 jest wystawiana. The shape of the main building follows the curve of the Seine, and the three administrative buildings are constructed to harmonize with the Haussmann-period buildings next to them. "Twelve months after the opening of Musée du quai Branly in Paris, journalist Jeremy Eccles takes a look at what effect, if any, the museum" (where contemporary Aboriginal art forms an integral part of the architectural structure) " has had on .... Aboriginal art". Contesting oceanic visions at Musee du Quai Branly. In 2018, the museum was at the center of a debate about the repatriation of objects that were removed from former French colonies during the period of colonialism. : 01 56 61 70 00. mardi, mercredi et dimanche de 11h à 19h. "[4], Coordinates: .mw-parser-output .geo-default,.mw-parser-output .geo-dms,.mw-parser-output .geo-dec{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .geo-nondefault,.mw-parser-output .geo-multi-punct{display:none}.mw-parser-output .longitude,.mw-parser-output .latitude{white-space:nowrap}48°51′39″N 2°17′51″E / 48.86083°N 2.29750°E / 48.86083; 2.29750. [6] The museum has both permanent exhibits and large exhibits which change every six months. Le musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac est un établissement public national à caractère administratif, placé sous la tutelle conjointe du ministère de la Culture et du ministère de l'Enseignement supérieur, de la Recherche et de l'Innovation. 37, quai Branly 75007 Paris Tél. Musée du quai Branly er et etnografisk museum i Paris som åpnet i juni 2006.Arkitekt er Jean Nouvel.Museet ligger i 7. arrondissement, i nærheten av Eiffeltårnet.. 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Le musée du Quai Branly - Jacques-Chirac, parfois appelé musée des Arts et Civilisations d'Afrique, d'Asie, d'Océanie et des Amériques (civilisations non européennes), est situé dans le 7 e arrondissement de Paris, le long du quai de la Seine qui lui donne son nom et au pied de la tour Eiffel.Le projet, porté par Jacques Chirac et réalisé par Jean Nouvel, est inauguré le 20 juin 2006. Toto rozhodnutie bolo rešpektované aj po oslobodení Francúzska. : 01 56 61 70 00. mardi, mercredi et dimanche de 11h à 19h. External links modified. Musée du quai Branly 37, quai Branly 75007 Parigi (Link esterno) Tel. There are no physical or spatial barriers separating the four main geographical areas, so visitors can go on a simulated "journey" by traveling from one continent to the other. In his design for the new museum, Nouvel took into account the criticisms of the neighbors who had blocked the Mitterrand project. Another notable feature of the Museum garden is the green wall, or wall of vegetation, created by botanist Patrick Blanc. Zwischen der Kathedrale und dem Musée du quai Branly liegt, wie die orthodoxe Kathedrale in unmittelbarer Nähe zum Pont de l’Alma, das 1861 errichtete Palais de l’Alma. It displays art and culture from indigenous civilisations of Africa, America, Asia and Oceania. Quai Branly opened on 23 June 2006. Alkuperäistaiteen museo [1] tai Afrikan, Aasian, Oseanian ja Amerikan taiteen ja kulttuurin museo ) sijaitsee Pariisin VII:ssä kaupunginosassa tiloissa, jotka kuuluivat aiemmin maan ulkomaankauppaministeriölle. The Quai Branly Museum opened in 2006, and is the newest of the major museums in Paris and received 1.15 million visitors in 2016. Wikimedia Commons har media som rör Musée du quai Branly. As a result of this division, the new museum was put under two different ministries; the Ministry of Education, which oversaw the ethnological teaching and research; and the Ministry of Culture and Communication, which oversaw the art. The gardens on the north side practically hide the museum building. In this article, he quotes Bernice Murphy - co-founder of the Sydney MCA and now National Director of Museums Australia and Chair of the Ethics Committee of the International Council of Museums. Le musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac est un établissement public national à caractère administratif, placé sous la tutelle conjointe du ministère de la Culture et du ministère de l'Enseignement supérieur, de la Recherche et de l'Innovation. They were designed by landscape architect Gilles Clément, and present the exact opposite of a traditional French formal garden: There are no fences, no lawn, no gates, no monumental stairway; instead, Clément composed a tapestry of small gardens, with streams, hills, pools, and groves, using the native French plants and imported plants accustomed to the Paris climate. The Wharf Museum Branly - Jacques Chirac, and all his teams, wish you all the best for … Musée du quai Branly er et etnografisk museum i Paris som åpnet i juni 2006.Arkitekt er Jean Nouvel.Museet ligger i 7. arrondissement, i nærheten av Eiffeltårnet.. Eksterne lenker (es) Offisielt nettsted (en) Musée du quai Branly – kategori av bilder, video eller lyd på Wikimedia Commons Virtual Collection of Masterpieces (VCM) Patrick Blanc hos designlines.de Musée du Quai Branly - Jacques-Chirac, n o 37, musée des arts et civilisations d'Afrique, d'Asie, d'Océanie et des Amériques avec son mur végétal donnant sur le quai. Car le musée – avant d’ouvrir au public en 2006 – a dû constituer une collection suffisante pour pouvoir s’imposer sur la scène internationale. [17], A reliquary from the Sango people of Gabon (19th century), Mask from the Pendé people of Congo (20th century), Mask from Eket people, Nigeria, (20th century), Back of a seat of honor, from the Abung people of the island of Sumatra in Indonesia (19th century), Figurines by Sundaribai from Surguja district in Chhattisgarh, India (20th century), Robe of a dignitary, China (19th century), Mayan container from Guatemala, AD 600-800, Aztec image of Chicomecoatl, goddess of corn, A heraldic mast, or totem pole, from the Nisga'a people in British Columbia, Canada (1890), A mask from Vanuatu, from the south of the island of Malekula. The garden side of the building contains an auditorium, classrooms, lecture hall, multimedia library and a bookshop. [24], Not all critics were pleased with the new museum when it opened. Following the tradition of French presidents building museums as monuments to their time in office, as exemplified by Presidents Georges Pompidou (Centre Georges Pompidou); Valéry Giscard d'Estaing (Musée d'Orsay) and François Mitterrand (Grand Louvre), the project for a new museum celebrating the arts of the Americas, Africa, Asia and Oceania was brought to completion by President Jacques Chirac. I have just modified 2 external links on Musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac. Earlier suggestions were Musée du Trocadéro, after the home of the Musée de l'Homme where it was initially to be located, Musée des arts premiers ("first arts", corresponding to the politically incorrect "primitive art"), or Musée [de l'homme,] des arts et des civilisations ("museum of [man,] the arts and civilizations"). A selection of objects from the museum are also displayed in the Pavillon des Sessions of the Louvre. The theatre is situated under the main hall and is also accessible from the garden. Legal challenges remain for restituting African artefacts from French museums, Musée national des Arts d'Afrique et d'Océanie, Report on the Restitution of African Cultural Heritage, report on the restitution of African cultural heritage, "Australian dancers perform a ritual ceremony 23 June 2006 in front of French Quai Branly's museum of primitive arts, in Paris", "Décret n° 2016-818 du 20 juin 2016 portant changement de dénomination de l'Etablissement public du musée du quai Branly", "The Restitution of African Cultural Heritage. Inauguré en 2006, ce musée rend hommage à l’art et aux civilisations de quatre continents : Amériques, Asie, Afrique et Océanie. 37, quai Branly 75007 Paris Tél. ", This page was last edited on 21 December 2020, at 16:02. “Macron Agrees to Return Benin Sculptures 'without Delay'.” The Local, The Local, 24 Nov. 2018, www.thelocal.fr/20181124/france-agrees-to-return-abomey-sculptures-to-benin. The separate Branly building contains administrative offices, and has one hundred forty work spaces on five floors. - A small selection of the collected objects of the museum is regularly displayed in the Pavillon des Sessions of the Louvre Museum. Of these, 3500 items are on display. [5][6][7], The museum opened under the name Musée du quai Branly, after the street alongside which it is built, a quay of the Seine named for the scientist Édouard Branly. A selection of objects from the museum are also displayed in the Pavillon des Sessions of the Louvre. Eugène Boban, a controversal antique dealer, sold this piece to Alphonse Pinart, a young explorer. The new museum was designed to be as out of sight as possible; the main building is designed to appear lower than the buildings around it, and is largely screened from view by its gardens. Musée du quai Branly, etnografiskt museum i Paris, öppnat i juni 2006.Arkitekt är Jean Nouvel.Museet ligger i 7:e arrondissementet, i närheten av Eiffeltornet.. Källor. Sally Price (2007) Paris Primitive: Jacques Chirac's Museum on the Quai Branly. [14] Nevertheless, the international discussion about restitution of looted cultural heritage has been given new momentum by the report, and major museums and other collections not only in France have intensified their cooperation with African institutions and art historians. The Auvent building, connected by footbridges with the Branly building, has sixty work spaces, and houses the Jacques Kerchache lecture hall and an archive of 700,000 photographs and sound recordings. ), of which 3,500 are on display at any given time, in both permanent and temporary thematic exhibits. The Musée du quai Branly is located in the 7th arrondissement of Paris, on the left bank of the Seine, close to the Eiffel Tower and the Pont de l'Alma. This last exhibit, called "Tiki Pop", featured films, posters, music, clothing, and a recreation of a Polynesia-themed "tiki bar" from the 1960s. The museum complex has four buildings, occupying 30,000 square metres (320,000 sq ft), which, along with the garden, cost 233 million euros to construct. Chirac was elected president of France in 1995, and in the following year announced the creation of a new museum combining the collections of two different museums: The two museums and collections were very different in their purposes and approaches; the MAAO was first and foremost an art collection, run by art historians and conservators, while the Museum of Man was run by ethnologists and anthropologists, and was most interested in the social-cultural context and uses of the objects. Projeto ambicioso executado por Jacques Chirac e realizado por Jean Nouvel, foi … Musée du quai Branly (česky Muzeum na nábřeží Branly) je muzeum mimoevropského umění v Paříži.Je zasvěceno umění z Asie, Afriky, Oceánie a severní i jižní Ameriky.Nachází se na levém břehu řeky Seiny na Quai Branly v 7. obvodu.Projekt muzea inicioval tehdejší francouzský prezident Jacques Chirac.Autorem stavby je architekt Jean Nouvel. Musée du Quai Branly (Link esterno) Orari (Link esterno) Tariffe (Link esterno) Scopri imperdibili siti con il Paris Museum Pass (Link esterno) FACEBOOK - Musée du quai Branly (Link esterno) The Musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac (French pronunciation: ​[myze dy ke bʁɑ̃li ʒak ʃiʁak]), located in Paris, France, is a museum featuring the indigenous art and cultures of Africa, Asia, Oceania, and the Americas. The competition was won by French architect Jean Nouvel, whose other major works included the Institute of the Arab World (1970), and Fondation Cartier (1991-94) in Paris, the renovation of the Lyon Opera (1986–93), the Palais de Justice in Nantes, and the Parc Poble Nou in Barcelona (2001). Nábrežie leží na ľavom brehu rieky Seiny medzi mostami Alma a Bir-Hakeim.Medzi nimi na nábrežie vedú ešte mosty Iéna a Debilly. In conclusion, she writes, "If the dichotomy of formal presentation versus contextual presentation is no longer relevant to museum anthropology practice, Branly does not seem to solve, in its permanent gallery, the dilemma between anthropology and aesthetics. O museu do quai Branly (em francês, musée du quai Branly) ou Museu das Artes e Civilizações da África, Ásia, Oceania e Américas, está situado no quai Branly, 7° arrondissement de Paris. [1] It holds the collections of the old Musée national des Arts d'Afrique et d'Océanie, which is now closed. Cette importante collection en fait un lieu incontournable des cultures des arts non occidentaux. The main gallery is relatively dark inside, with a small amount of sunlight entering from outside, and with direct lighting only on the exhibited objects from the permanent collection. Old, new, good, bad are jumbled all together without much reason or explanation, save for visual theatrics. Originally, 169 trees and 72,000 plants were planted. [3], The first venture of the new museum was the opening of a new gallery within the Louvre Museum, in the Pavillon des Sessions, dedicated to what were called the arts premiers, the "first arts". Nouvel designed the interior of the museum in such a way as to liberate artifacts from their Western architectural references by not including barriers and railings in the gallery spaces. Le Musée du Quai-Branly fête ses 20 ans, ou plus exactement les 20 ans de ses collections. In December 1998, the museum was officially established, and Stéphane Martin was named its president.[2]. Musée du quai Branly is een groot etnografisch museum dat gevestigd is in het 7e arrondissement van Parijs, dicht bij de Eiffeltoren.Op 23 juni 2006 werd het officieel geopend door de toenmalige Franse president Jacques Chirac.Het museum gaat door als zijn project om in de Franse hoofdstad een duurzaam cultureel monument na te laten dat hem zal overleven. The issue was resolved by a decree by President Chirac and the government of Prime Minister Lionel Jospin on 29 July 1998, to construct an entirely new museum at 29-55 quai Branly on the banks of the Seine not far from the Eiffel Tower in the 7th arrondissement of Paris. Français : Crâne de crystal au musée du quai Branly, Paris. The west mezzanine has a new exhibition every eighteen months, while the exhibition on the east mezzanine changes each year. [26] The mokomokai were formally returned to New Zealand on 23 January 2012 and they are now housed at Te Papa and are not on display.[26]. [1] It is jointly administered by the French Ministry of Culture and Communication and the Ministry of Higher Education and Research, and serves as both a museum and as a center for research. The main building containing the galleries of the museum is 210 metres (690 ft) long and covers 4,750 square metres (51,100 sq ft), and has a 3,000-square-metre (32,000 sq ft) terrace on the roof, the largest roof terrace in Paris. Wikimedia Commons har media som rör Musée du quai Branly. Still the first half of the 20th century, a number of French intellectuals and scientists, including André Malraux, André Breton, and Claude Lévi-Strauss, had called for a single and important museum in Paris dedicated to the arts and cultures of the indigenous people of the colonized territories, which was considered primitive peoples without own culture to the science of that time and the non-European art was considered exotic art, drawing upon the large collections gathered by French explorers, missionaries, scientists and ethnologists. Nábrežie bolo najskôr súčasťou Quai d’Orsay. On the north side, facing the street along the Seine, the garden is protected by a high double wall of plate glass, which blocks most of the sound from the street. The Musée du quai Branly was inaugurated on 20 June 2006 and opened to the public on 23 June. Located on the banks of the River Seine, at the foot of the Eiffel Tower, the musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac aims to promote the Arts and Civilizations of Africa, Asia, Oceania and the Americas, at the crossroads of multiple cultural, religious and historical influences. It is known in English as the Quai Branly Museum, nicknamed MQB. Poloha. The Musée du Louvre contains more than 380,000 objects and displays 35,000 works of art in eight curatorial departments with more than 60,600 square metres (652,000 sq ft) … [2], In an attempt to create "an original venue that would do justice to the infinite diversity of cultures",[This quote needs a citation] the museum is designed in a way that that is supposed to feel open and inclusive. "[25], The MQB was involved in a controversy over the return of Maori tattooed heads, known as mokomokai, held in France. As the trees of the garden around the building grow, the columns will be completely hidden and the building will appear to be resting on the treetops. Coordinates: 48°51′39″N 2°17′51″E / 48.86083°N 2.29750°E / 48.86083; 2.29750, From Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Please take a moment to review my edit. At the beginning of 1999 a jury was formed and an international competition was held to select an architect. Fréquentation - Le musée du quai Branly ou musée des arts et civilisations d'Afrique, d'Asie, d'Océanie et des Amériques (civilisations non occidentales) est situé quai Branly dans le VIIe arrondissement de Paris, à la place qui fut occupée par le ministère du Commerce extérieur.