Museums and ideas
The collection of the Musée du Quai Branly numbers some 268,000 items, 236,509 of which were transferred from the ethnology laboratory of the Musée de l’Homme, and a further 22,740 from the Musée National des Arts d’Afrique et d’Océanie. Quai Branly has acquired a further 8,168 artefacts since 1998. From this collection around 3,600 items are exhibited in the public gallery spaces of the museum at any given time.
PETER HYLANDS caught up with PHILIPPE PELTIER, the curator of Indonesian and Read more …