The Quai Branly Museum close to our motels has a brand new exhibition on supply paying homage to 2 indigenous peoples of the Higher and Lesser Antilles – the Taíno and the Kalinago.
Curiously, the occasion is on the identical topic as one other held thirty years in the past in Paris on the Petit Palais, which planted the primary seed for the creation of… the Quai Branly Museum.
The Taínos and Kalinago had been current within the Caribbean earlier than the arrival of Christopher Colombus in 1492, and among the many first to be decimated by colonisation, sickness and battle. Nonetheless, they weren’t utterly wiped ou, and their descendants are nonetheless to be discovered on among the islands.
This new exhibition reveals over seventy of their creations – sculptures, drawings, images and work – and retraces the historical past of the primary West Indians and their legacy.
You’ll additionally learn the way the method for such an exhibition has modified prior to now 30 years for the reason that first occasion, and the way it helped encourage the creation of the Quai Branly Museum. Fairly a narrative!
The exhibition The Taíno and Kalinago of the Caribbean is on the Quai Branly Museum (right here) till thirteenth October 2024
Open day-after-day besides Mondays from 10.30am-7pm (10pm Thursdays)
Admission: 14€ / 11€
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