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Garden

of
CURIOSITIES

MUSÉE DU QUAI BRANLY
PARIS (FRANCE)
ATELIERS JEAN NOUVEL

BACKPACK AND METRO TICKET The brief stated it should be a museum dedicated
Jean Nouvel offers a real change of scenery at to the arts and civilizations of Africa, Asia, Oceania
the Musée du Quai Branly. The project, and the Americas, while simultaneously making a
statement, blending into the urban landscape and
launched by Jacques Chirac, plunges one-day taking second stage to the exhibits. An architectural
explorers into the heart of the Amazonian forest conundrum largely solved by the Ateliers Jean
and asks them to consider art from elsewhere... Nouvel, with untamed vegetation, outsized
and encourages the museum's architecture to windows, and intelligently positioned curves
and cubes. The creation of bridges – real
tell us the history of the cultures it honors. and suggested – between the four
buildings and continents provides
a setting for an enigmatic stroll
through a scenographic
landscape mounted
on stilts.

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TEMPOSOFT MIX 2 time flow mixer (Ref. 742500)