The Quai Branly Museum near our lodges invitations you on a visit to Haiti to discover the parable of the zombie, one thing that’s broadly seen in fashionable movies and sequence however has its roots within the voodoo beliefs and slavery of the sixteenth century.
Neglect the picture of the drooling undead, dragging their decomposing stays in the direction of you to eat your brains, and prepare to be taught all about how zombies got here to be (so to talk) on this new exhibition on the Quai Branly Museum!
Taking a phrase of African origin (nzambi) and mixing conventional Africa, catholic and Caribbean beliefs, the parable of zombies appears to be current in all places now, deeply ingrained in society.
The exhibition will present you the advanced origins of this fantasy, having a look, for instance, at a Haitian ceremony throughout which a felony could be judged, condemned, drugged and buried alive earlier than being dug again to change into their grasp’s slave. 🧟♂️
These practices involving the “non-dead”, someplace between reality and fiction, will likely be illustrated within the exhibition by reconstruction of a military of Bizango warriors and a Voodoo cemetery and temple!
The exhibition additionally explores how zombies have change into so in style, from 1690 and their first apparition in European literature to movies like World Struggle Z, by means of songs like Michael Jackson’s Thriller.
Eight tales of twentieth century zombies may even be explored, together with that of Felicia Felix-Mentor who died in 1907 in Haiti, solely to be photographed ‘alive’ in 1937 by the American anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston!
From secret societies to witchcraft, you’ll quickly be a zombie skilled!
Linked with the exhibition, which simply occurs to coincide with Halloween, there are:
— guided go to, one in all which is for households and consists of storytelling,
— displaying of a number of zombie movies from thirty first October – third November (Evening of the Residing Useless, The Serpent and the Rainbow…),
— Bese Trye by Erol Josué, a one-hour musical theatre present, on 2nd February at 5pm,
— a particular late evening Zombis pop night on thirty first October, with DJs, horros make-up tutorials, a speak about sombies and video video games, a bar, a photograph studio, a zombie-themed musical quiz…
A list of the exhibition (216 pages, 36€) can be obtainable right here out of your native amazon.
The exhibition Zombies – Demise will not be the tip? is on the Quai Branly Museum (right here) till sixteenth February 2025
Open every single day besides Monday from 10.30am-7pm (10pm Thursdays)
Admission: 14€ / 11€
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