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The Médiathèque at the musée du quai Branly in Paris: virtual, but more than that

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 June 2016

Odile Grandet
Odile Grandet*
Affiliation:
musée du quai Branly, Département du Patrimoine et des Collections, 222 rue de l’Université, 75343 Paris Cedex 07, France
*
Email: odile.grandet@quaibranly.fr
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Extract

In June 2006, just a year ago, in Paris – between the Seine and the Eiffel Tower – a new museum opened. The musée du quai Branly is dedicated to non-European arts and civilisations. At the heart of this museum is a médiathèque.

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Research Article
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Art Libraries Journal , Volume 32 , Special Issue 4: Art Libraries in New and converted buildings , 2007 , pp. 35 - 39
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Copyright © The Art Libraries Society 2007

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References

1. Degli, Marine and Mauzé, Marie, Arts premiers, le temps de la reconnaissance (Paris: Gallimard/Reunion des Musées Nationaux, 2000), 58–59.Google Scholar
2. Ibid., 30.Google Scholar
3. The photographic collection has not yet been completely digitised: work is still in progress, both on the digitisation itself and, on the legal side, with tracing and negotiating rights.Google Scholar
4. http://www.quaibranly.fr/.Google Scholar
5. See Musée du quai Branly, Rapport d’activité 2002: Groupe de réflexion sur la politique documentaire du musée du quai Branly (Paris: Musée du quai Branly, 2002).Google Scholar
6. From 19 September 2006 to 21 January 2007, the museum housed a temporary exhibition called D’un regard l’autre, whose theme was the changes in the way Europeans have seen non-Western civilisations from 1500 to today.Google Scholar
7. Crépu, Michel, ‘Ce vice encore impuni,’ in Steiner, George, Le silence des livres (Paris: Arlea, 2006). A rough translation is ‘the experience of solitude, of the view of the roofscape through the window, the experience of the strange and sweet sadness which underlies all books like a shadowy light, this essential experience which is quite simply our initiation to the world and its finiteness’.Google Scholar