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Les catalogues du musée

Le catalogue de la bibliothèque de recherche

Il comprend les références de tous les documents imprimés, audiovisuels et périodiques de la médiathèque et vous permet de les réserver à distance pour une consultation sur place.

  • Consulter le catalogue de la médiathèque ici

Le catalogue des archives

Pour accéder aux références des dossiers et documents couvrant l’histoire des collections du musée (consultation intégrale des dossiers numérisés uniquement sur place).

Le catalogue des objets et de l’iconothèque

retrouvez l’ensemble des notices et images des objets conservés par le musée et les 410 000 pièces en ligne de la collection de photographies et d’arts graphiques.

Different types of materials accessible via the catalogs

Printed documents

  • 200,000 titles (20,000 open access) on the ethnology and history of the arts and civilizations of Africa, Asia, Oceania and the Americas, in the original language or in French translation;
  • 11,000 volumes of rare and valuable works, from the end of the 16th to the 19th centuries: travelogs, scientific missions, original editions, annotated copies;
  • 4,600 periodicals, including 700 currently on subscription;
  • Theses in the fields of ethnology and anthropology supervised in France since 1985, including those supervised by the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS);
  • Private libraries of renowned ethnologists and anthropologists, including: Claude Lévi-Strauss, Marcel Mauss, Georges Condominas, etc.

Audio and Audiovisual Material

  • 6,000 CDs of world music and 6,000 DVDs of documentary ethnographic films and fictional films, including 2,350 online;
  • Original scientific collections, including the sound archives of ethnomusicologists such as Gilbert Rouget and film archives;
  • Lectures, concerts and performances recorded at the musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac.

Image Collections

700,000 images – photographs, posters, postcards, prints, watercolors and drawings – related to scientific missions and voyages around the world, as well as the history of the museum’s collections.

Archives and Collections Documentation

More than 88,000 records and 583,730 related digital documents which contain:

  • Collections materials: legal, administrative, technical and scientific documentation on the collections;
  • Public collections: musée des Colonies, musées de la France d’Outre-Mer, musée des Arts d’Afrique et d’Océanie et musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac;
  • Private collections: ethnologists (Thérèse Rivière, Henry Reichlen, etc.), art historians (Lucien Stephan, etc.), gallery owners (Louis Carré, etc.), colonial administrators, curators, etc.

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