The French president Valéry Giscard d’Estaing was behind the project of the Arab World Institute construction at the heart of Paris. Thus, he wanted to lighten the relations between France and Arab countries bringing the two cultures closer. The building was inaugurated in 1987 under the chairmanship of François Mitterrand. The Institute shelters permanent collections… Read more »
Réputé pour être l’un des plus importants musées de France et même du monde, le Louvre abrite des collections inestimables retraçant l’histoire de l’art, de l’Antiquité au 19ème siècle. Bien plus qu’un simple musée, le Louvre est également un monument historique qui permet à ses visiteurs de remonter le temps pour admirer les prouesses architecturales… 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 »