iOpened in 2006 and designed by Jean Nouvel, the Musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac is devoted to the indigenous arts and cultures of Africa, Asia, Oceania and the Americas. Its collection holds more than a million objects, with around 3,500 shown at a time along a sinuous, dimly lit gallery on the riverbank near the Eiffel Tower. The building is wrapped in a garden and a living green wall by botanist Patrick Blanc, making the museum a landmark of contemporary architecture in its own right.

An installation by Yo-E Ryou in the music box of the Collections Plateau, unfolding through sound, breath and duration to explore resonance between bodies, water and memory.
Arts and culture of the Northwestern United States, exploring First Nations artistic traditions featuring mythical beings and spirit animals such as the Raven.
A rare photographic collection from French Polynesia's earliest decade of photography, featuring works by naval officers Gustave Viaud and Paul Emile Miot.
Artist Romeo Mivekannin uses mirror effects and metal sculptures to examine the history of colonial exhibitions and human zoos, reinterpreting historical ethnographic photographs from the museum's collection.
The Centre Pompidou hangs works by several generations of artists inside the museum's permanent route, setting formal echoes and critical reinterpretations of tradition against the collections.
The first exhibition by a French national museum on the Ainu, Indigenous people of northern Japan. Contemporary Indigenous art links past and present, with loans from Japan's national Ainu museum.
Ten centuries and twenty kingdoms of sub-Saharan Africa: crowns, thrones, sceptres, royal masks and contemporary works on how art expressed and legitimised power. First shown at the Louvre Abu Dhabi.
The hidden conservation work behind the collections: identifying materials, protecting objects, and the limits of restoration, shown with before-and-after objects and scientific images.
A display in the Boîte arts graphiques of the museum's Nepal photographs, from 19th-century royal portraits to contemporary photographer Prasiit Sthapit, on how images shaped the country's visibility.
The life of the singer and anti-apartheid activist, exiled from South Africa in 1959, who became a world star with Pata Pata and a voice for civil rights and Pan-Africanism.
37 Quai Branly, 75007 Paris, France
Nearest station: RER C - Pont de l'Alma, Metro Alma-Marceau (line 9) and Metro Iena (line 9)
Show on map| MonToday | Closed |
| Tue | 10:30–19:00 |
| Wed | 10:30–19:00 |
| Thu | 10:30–22:00 |
| Fri | 10:30–19:00 |
| Sat | 10:30–19:00 |
| Sun | 10:30–19:00 |
From €14
Combined ticket includes permanent collections and temporary exhibitions; reduced 11 EUR. Free on the first Sunday of each month and for under-26 EEA residents.
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