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RETURN TO THE QUAI BRANLY
Author(s) -
Price Sally
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
museum anthropology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.197
H-Index - 15
eISSN - 1548-1379
pISSN - 0892-8339
DOI - 10.1111/j.1548-1379.2010.01071.x
Subject(s) - exhibition , shadow (psychology) , museology , cultural property , politics , variety (cybernetics) , history , field (mathematics) , power (physics) , tower , visual arts , media studies , art history , art , sociology , political science , archaeology , law , computer science , cultural heritage , psychology , physics , mathematics , quantum mechanics , artificial intelligence , pure mathematics , psychotherapist
The Musée du quai Branly, built in the shadow of the Eiffel Tower, opened to great fanfare in 2006. Since then it has sponsored a wide variety of exhibitions and conjoint activities and fueled rich debates about museology in the postcolonial world—from collecting practices in the field and issues concerning cultural property to the politics of display and the distribution of power among collectors, dealers, curators, anthropologists, and art historians. This article follows on the book in which Price (2007) chronicled events leading up to the museum's inauguration. It lays out developments over the past three years and engages the literature, in France and elsewhere, that has swirled around the museum's undertaking.