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L’Institut du Monde Arabe au cœur de Paris est né de l’initiative du président français Valéry Giscard d’Estaing, qui souhaitait rapprocher la France et les pays arabes en créant un espace dédié à la découverte et au dialogue culturel. Inauguré en 1987 sous la présidence de François Mitterrand, le bâtiment séduit par son architecture moderne… Read more »

It was in 1957 that the signed Léonard Bernstein West Side Story musical show has been played for the first time in a Broadway’s theatre. The play which takes Romeo and Juillette’s subject over transposed in a popular district of Manhattan remains displayed at almost 1000 shows before to be deported in Europe, success has… Read more »

From the start of explorations for the “New World” or South Pacific Islands, mariners brought many “souvenirs” from their trip. Europeans are passionate for this far away civilisations and the wealthier get their own cabinet of curiosities. That was how a first temporary ethnographic Museum gathering many private collections opened its doors in Paris in… Read more »