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The Trocadéro Palace, home of the Musée d'Ethnographie du Trocadéro, in the 1890s. The Musée d'Ethnographie du Trocadéro (Ethnographic Museum of the Trocadéro, also called simply the Musée du Trocadéro) was the first anthropological museum in Paris, founded in 1878.
The majority of the "ethnographic exhibition" from the Musée de l'Armée of the Invalides, as it was then called, is composed of dummies representing people from French colonies, along with weapons and equipment. This material was transferred to the museum in 1910 and 1917. [2]
Lutten is known for his work for the Ethnographic Museum of the Trocadero Musée d'Ethnographie du Trocadéro from October 1930 to July 1935 and in particular his participation in two major research expeditions: Mission Dakar-Djibouti from 1931 to 1933, the most important French ethnographic expedition that crossed Africa from West to East, and ...
The Trocadéro Palace was an eclectic building of Moorish and neo-Byzantine inspiration dating from the second half of the 19th century. Located in the 16th arrondissement of Paris, on the Convent of the Visitandines de Chaillot between the Place du Trocadéro and the gardens of the same name, it comprised a 4,600-seat auditorium extended on either side by two curved wings, each housing a ...
Marcel Griaule (16 May 1898 – 23 February 1956) was a French author and anthropologist known for his studies of the Dogon people of West Africa, [1] and for pioneering ethnographic field studies in France. He worked together with Germaine Dieterlen and Jean Rouch on African subjects. His publications number over 170 books and articles for ...
Place du Trocadéro et du 11 Novembre The Fontaines de Chaillot and Eiffel Tower seen from the Place du Trocadéro. The Trocadéro (pronounced [tʁɔkadeʁo] ⓘ), site of the Palais de Chaillot, is an area of Paris, France, in the 16th arrondissement, across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower.
The latter, first curator of the Ethnographic Museum of Trocadero and director of scientific missions from 1880, would later appeal to him. At 19, Pinart realized his project of travel at his expense; he resided from spring 1871 to spring 1872 in Alaska, a region that has just been acquired by the United States after nearly a century of Russian ...
That year, he launched the Musée National des Arts et Traditions Populaires, also based on the Trocadéro museum's ethnographic collections. Oriented toward public education, its collection and exhibitions programme first focused on popular traditional art forms before dedicating itself to science and research with the introduction of the ...