What is Quai Branly Museum?
[[File:Paphal (Musée du Quai Branly) (4489839164).jpg|thumb|250px|Sculpture of [[Poubi Lai]], being displayed in the Quai Branly Museum in 2010.]] [[File:Quai Branly exhibit 05.JPG|thumb|250px|alt=|View of its African exhibits]] The '''Quai Branly Museum''', known in French as the '''Musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac''' ({{IPA-fr|myze dy ke bʁɑ̃li ʒak ʃiʁak}}), is a [[museum]] in [[Paris]]. It displays art and culture from [[indigenous]] civilisations of [[Africa]], [[Americas|America]], [[Asia]] and [[Oceania]]. Quai Branly opened on 23 June 2006.<ref>Sally Price (2007) Paris Primitive: Jacques Chirac's Museum on the Quai Branly. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.</ref> It holds the collections of the old Musée national des Arts d'Afrique et d'Océanie, which is now closed. It contains 267,000 objects in its permanent collection. Of these, 3500 items are on display. == Notes == {{Reflist}} == Other websites == {{Commons category|Musée du quai Branly}} *[http://www.quaibranly.fr/index.php?id=accueil&L=1/ Musée du quai Branly] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151028192804/http://www.quaibranly.fr/index.php?id=accueil&L=1%2F |date=2015-10-28 }} (site in French, English and Spanish) {{Coord|48|51|39|N|2|17|51|E|region:FR_type:landmark|display=title}} {{authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Quai Branly, Musee Du}} [[Category:2006 establishments in France]] [[Category:Art museums in France]] [[Category:Museums in Paris]]