Musée de l’Homme

The Musée de l’Homme (“Museum of Man”) is an anthropology museum. It was established in 1937 by Paul Rivet for the 1937 Exposition Internationale des Arts et Techniques dans la Vie Moderne. It is the descendant of the Musée d’Ethnographie du Trocadéro, founded in 1878. The museum is part of the Musée national d’histoire naturelle. Its original purpose was to gather in a one place all that can define humanity: its evolution, its unity and its variety, and its cultural and social expression. The permanent exhibition of the Museum of the Man counted more than 15,000 artifacts, reflecting the artistic but also technical and cultural treasures from five continents.