A palace as legacy

The former French colonial museum - perspectives from the inside

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2391111
AutoresAnne Monjaret (0000-0002-9838-123X, French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), Paris, France), Mélanie Roustan (0009-0005-7985-7238, Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France, autor de correspondencia)
Año2017
Volumen22
Número2
Páginas216-236
Fecha de publicación2017-06-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Material Culture (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1359-1835 • E-ISSN: 1460-3586
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1359183517704550
OpenAlexW2607407893
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas1
Referencias citadas15

The Musée des Colonies was founded in 1931 in the Palais de la Porte Dorée, built for the Colonial Exhibition in Paris. Over the century, the lasting nature of the architecture has stood in counterpoint to the changing orientations of the museum as an institution, from arts to immigration. To what extent does the building continue to bear the stamp of its origins? Is a reversal of colonial material culture possible? This ethnography provides accounts of institutional discourses and employees' memories collected by the authors, who have been conducting fieldwork on the site for 15 years. In focusing on permanent material culture (the building housing the museum) rather than on the circulation and changing status of collections, the authors provide an original take on colonial remains in France. They also set milestones on the specificities of permanency and monumentality in material culture approaches

Archaeology · Art · Art history · Articulation (sociology · Colonialism · Counterpoint · Ethnography · Exhibition · Immigration · Institution · Material culture · Political science · Social science · Sociology · The arts · Visual arts · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Cultural Identity and Heritage · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · History · Law · Architecture