Musée du Quai Branly – Jacques Chirac

Inaugurated in 2006 under President Jacques Chirac and designed by Pritzker Prize winner Jean Nouvel. Dedicated to the indigenous arts and civilizations of Africa, Asia, Oceania, and the Americas.

A lush, non-Western sanctuary sheltered inside a wild botanical grove, breaking away from Eurocentric museum architecture.

Curators were said to conduct traditional indigenous purification ceremonies before placing certain ancestral sacred masks on display.