Musee du Quai Branly
Overview
France's museum of the indigenous arts of Africa, Asia, Oceania, and the Americas, designed by Jean Nouvel with a vertical garden wall by Patrick Blanc. Some 370,000 objects include masks, textiles, and musical instruments collected across centuries of exploration and empire. Its Khalil collection of Aboriginal art is the largest outside Australia.
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