Musée du quai Branly

The Musée du quai Branly is located in the heart of Paris next to the Eiffel Tower, more precisely in the lands that were occupied by the French Minister of Foreign Trade.
It is an ethnologic museum opened the 20th of June of 2006 but it did not open its doors until the 23rd of June. It is a marvellously made by the architect Jean Nouvel. Its construction is surrounded by abundant vegetation and a glass pale settlement that covers the wharfs. The museum is also called Musée des Arts or Musée et Civilisations The Marmottan Museum is one of the best collections of impressionist paints. The collection is a complete unit and very representative of this movement.
It has more than three hundred paints, pastels, watercolour and sculptures from the artists that created this movement or the ones that joined it later.
It has also 200 engraving pieces from the XIII and XVI century, bronze statues and Napoleonic paints.
It is located in an antique pavilion that was acquired by Jules Marmottan in 1882. His son, Paul, remodelled the place to make it bigger and have enough space to expose the paints, the furniture and the bronze pieces from the Napoleonic era that is still family property. When he dies in 1932, the founds of its collections are donated to the Ecole des Beaux Arts; also to the Boulogne library and his private hotel, remodelled 2 years later into this museum.
It is open every day from 10:00hs to 18:00hs. Close on Mondays, the 1st of May and the 25th of December.
d'Afrique, d'Asie, d'Océanie et des Amériques.
Inside the museum you will find a textile collection with more than 25.000 pieces from all over the world, a photo collection with more than 700.000 antique pictures coming from the Man Museum and the National Museum of African and Oceania arts, that are related to music and instruments. There are more than 9.000 instruments from different ages and a history collection with more than 10.000 pieces also coming from Man Museum and the National Museum of African and Oceania arts.

The monuments and museums pass is accepted.