Film screenings, concerts, evening events, literary rendezvous, exhibitions... The Musée du Quai Branly - Jacques Chirac is a lively art venue, regularly hosting festive and cultural events for the general public. The museum is dedicated to the arts of Africa, Asia, the Americas and Oceania, and houses over a million objects and works of art from all over the world.
Located on the banks of the Seine in Paris's 7th arrondissement, the Musée du Quai Branly is like a cocoon for art lovers: once through the doors, you find yourself in a hidden garden, with numerous activities at your fingertips.
On September 21 and 22, 2024, the museum is offering a rather special program... The institution is taking part in the 41st Journées du Patrimoine, an annual cultural event that allows us to (re)discover historical, cultural and unusual sites near us. Please note that the Musée du Quai Branly's special Heritage Days events are free of charge, but subject to availability. A variety of events will punctuate this open house weekend. To find out more, click below!
From Papua New Guinea to Mexico, from traditional music to electronic beats, explore the museum's collections to the rhythm of sounds from the four corners of the globe!
On the Collections stage, Sonorama is a sound walk inviting you to discover 17 musical windows, each opening onto a contemporary culture.
From traditional music to reggae, Afro beat to hip hop, let yourself be carried away and observe how music guides your view of the works. Grab your headphones and smartphone, and let the rhythms and sounds guide you!
Self-guided tour of
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Take advantage of an unusual tour to explore the media library's collections on the themes of creolité and women's voices.
At the heart of the Research Library and the Cabinet de fonds précieux, discover the treasures they hold on creolité, women's songs and voices.
Saturday and Sunday, 2:15pm, 3:15pm, 4:15pm and 5:15pm
duration: 45 min
free admission, subject to availability
Self-guided tour of the museum's permanent collections and temporary exhibitions.
Discover the museum's collections and exhibitions at your own pace.
Current exhibitions:
- Mexica. Gifts and gods at the Templo Mayor
- Myriam Mihindou. Ilimb, l'essence des pleurs.
- Taïnos et Kalinagos des Antilles
Free admission from 2pm to 6pm.
A workshop to discover Indian shadow theater!
After observing and handling real figures, create your own show based on the famous Rãmãyana epic.
Saturday and Sunday, non-stop from 2:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.
duration: 15 min
free admission, subject to availability
ages 6 and up
Listen to sounds from all over the world thanks to the INEDIT label repertoire mixed by DJ Praktika.
The Maison des Cultures du Monde - Centre Français du patrimoine culturel immatériel is offering to (re)discover the gems of its INEDIT music label, launched in 1985 and boasting over 156 references, by entrusting the keys to its collection to DJ Praktika for the production of 6 mixtapes.
No geographical restrictions have been imposed, and each mixtape will take you across continents and eras, sweeping aside any anachronism. The only constraint is that the music must coexist, without digital dressing or electronic music tools. These six Mixtapes cover 40 years of recordings and bring them into dialogue.
venue: reception hall
Saturday and Sunday, 2:30pm, 3pm, 3:30pm and 4pm
duration: 15 min
free admission, subject to availability
about the INEDIT label
The INEDIT record collection passionately promotes endangered or little-known musical traditions and artists committed to defending their culture. Whether field recordings, concert recordings or heritage anthologies, each disc is designed to satisfy the enthusiast in search of new emotions as well as the most demanding music lover. This concern for artistic quality and editorial rigor has earned the collection over 200 awards.
Collections experts give you a new way to experience the museum!
Discover the oral arts, rituals and celebrations of living heritage that lie behind the works, in the company of the museum's curators.
Saturday and Sunday, 2.30pm, 3.30pm, 3.30pm and 4.30pm and 5.30pm
duration: 20 min
free admission, subject to availability
Take your family on an imaginary journey to the sounds of myths and legends from around the world!
To the rhythm of the music, travel the world through the myths and legends of Asia, Africa, Oceania and the Americas.
Saturday and Sunday, non-stop from 2:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.
duration: 15 min
free admission, subject to availability
for 3-5 year-olds
Take part in the Roda Capoeira, an Afro-Brazilian ritual combining singing, percussion, combat techniques and acrobatics.
Celebrate 10 years of UNESCO World Heritage status for capoeira, the Afro-Brazilian martial art, by taking part in a grand roda!
The roda is the circle formed by capoeiristas. It features martial combat, artistic "floreis" (acrobatics) and music with songs and instruments typical of capoeira. This round, which delimits the playing area, serves above all to create an atmosphere conducive to the show.
With Vida de Capoeira (Saturday) and the Jogaki association (Sunday).
Practical info:
venue: garden
Saturday and Sunday, at 2.30pm, 3.15pm, 4pm and 4.45pm
duration: 15 min
free admission, subject to availability.
Follow the itineraries of the world's celebrations through storytelling!
From the carnivals of the Americas to the initiations of Africa, discover the myths and legends of four continents.
Saturday and Sunday, 2.30pm, 3.30pm, 4.30pm, 5pm and 5.30pm
duration: 25 min
free admission, subject to availability
During your visit to the museum, listen out for the voices of poets and poetesses to take your imagination on a journey!
Slam is about saying the world and being said by the world, in Haitian Creole, Reunionese, French, Arabic, Vietnamese, Duala... Follow these performances where imaginary worlds intertwine.
Imagined by Capitaine Alexandre of the collective On A Slamé sur la Lune
venue: reception hall
Saturday and Sunday, 2:45pm, 3:15pm, 3:45pm
duration: 15 min
free admission, subject to availability
Dive into Rapa Nui culture in the heart of the Pacific Ocean with storyteller Céline Ripoll, a specialist in the art of Easter Island oratory.
Céline Ripoll, a specialist in the art of oratory on Rapa Nui, invites you to follow a storytelling and singing tour in the form of kai kai, a traditional Easter Island string game, the recitation of which is similar to that of the texts of the mysterious talking woods.
It's an opportunity to put into context what we know about the Rongorongo script, the only writing system in the whole of Oceania, and the preservation of the Rapanui language through the transmission of songs and legends.
Saturday and Sunday, 3pm and 4pm
duration: 35 min
free admission, subject to availability
Go behind the scenes of the new sound trail with the designers in charge of implementing the project!
Go behind the scenes of the brand-new sound trail in the Collections, with designers from NARRATIVE!
Find out more about the different sounds used on the Collections stage, and follow a tour of the four corners of the globe, with commentary by three of the professionals in charge of the project.
With Luc Martinez, Simon Cacheux and Julia Griner
Saturday and Sunday, 3pm, 4pm and 5pm
duration: 20 min
departure: "family" desk
free admission, subject to availability
Interview with artist Ben Kamuntu and researcher Maeline Le Lay.
Rendezvous at the Jacques Kerchache reading room
In Goma, the capital of North Kivu province in eastern DR Congo, a collective of slammers is unleashing "eruptions of words" to heal the wounds caused by the ongoing state of war, and to raise awareness of the population's rights vis-à-vis political power. Their aspirations and the way they operate are similar to those of the LUCHA activists, a major Congolese civil society movement which - among other things - helped bring down the former regime.
It is this intertwined story of slam and militant activism that will be explored here. In a town on the Great Lakes, a region affected for some thirty years by genocide and, in its wake, by a series of innumerable wars and massacres, a collective of spoken-word artists immersed in the social struggle for the respect of human rights alongside NGOs and other international pressure groups, deploys its poetic action, in the sense in which Enzo Cormann understands it: "which attempts to organically link the construction of the assembly to the incessant reinvention of drama - the political to the poetic". We will see how the modalities of constituting an ethos of the engaged artist are thus redrawn in and by this singular context.
This article is based on several long-term field stays in Goma and the Great Lakes region, between January 2018 and June 2021; a field that involved regular attendance at the slammers and constant monitoring of their activities, as well as the development of joint projects.
Free admission, subject to availability
Duration: 1h30
Interview with curator and art historian Alexandre Girard-Muscagorry and musician Yakhouba Sissokho.
As part of the Salon de lecture Jacques Kerchache series
The kora is an emblematic instrument of West African music, now played on stages the world over and lending itself to every musical "branch" - from free jazz to electro - with its roots in Senegambia, in the far west of the Mandingo world. This harp, easily recognized by its imposing calabash resonance box, its high bridge and its twenty-one strings, is the emblematic instrument of the griots, those professionals of the spoken word charged with recounting the deeds of the great families and maintaining historical memory in West Africa.
This talk, combining the perspectives of a musician and a curator, will trace the remarkable career of the kora from its emergence in the Kaabu kingdom at the end of the 18th century to its transformation into a global symbol of "African music". From its reception in Europe in the mid-19th century, in the context of a nascent ethnomusicology and world exhibitions, to its inclusion in the world music of the 1980s, via its political recovery in the context of independence, several milestones in the instrument's history will be evoked. Drawing on the collections of the musée du quai Branly, particular attention will be paid to the evolution of kora making, which bears witness to the ceaseless adaptation of this instrument and its musicians to the musical, social, economic and identity-related challenges of each place and time.
This talk is offered to coincide with the publication of Alexandre Girard-Muscagorry's book, La kora de Victor Schœlcher. L'Empire d'un instrument ouest-africain, published by Philharmonie de Paris.
Free admission, subject to availability
Duration: 1h30 minutes
Please note that booking is not compulsory, but that activities are only available on a first-come, first-served basis. To be sure of being able to take part in these visits, come early. Once again, one of the capital's finest museums enchants us with its not-to-be-missed program!
Dates and Opening Time
From September 21, 2024 to September 22, 2024
Location
Musée du quai Branly Jacques Chirac
Quai Branly
75007 Paris 7
Access
Metro line 9 "Iéna" station RER C "Pont de l'Alma" station
Official website
www.quaibranly.fr
