Museum of Mankind
In the Passy wing of the Palais de Chaillot, the Musée de l’Homme—“Museum of Mankind”—opened in 1937, established by Paul Rivet for the 1937 Exposition Internationale des Arts et Techniques dans la Vie Moderne. Its collections reached back much further than that: the museum was the descendant of the Musée d’Ethnographie du Trocadéro, founded in 1828, and it also drew on ethnographic material that had been displayed as early as the 19th century. Rivet’s museum brought these threads together with a stated ambition: to gather everything that defines the human being—evolution, anthropology’s unity and diversity, and ethnology’s cultural and social expression. During its early years, it received major transfers from the Musée de l’Armée at Les Invalides, with key material moving in 1910 and 1917. …
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