Musee Du Quai Branly

This museum along the banks of the Seine is an ode to indigenous African , Asia Oceanic and American cultures/art. Some of the controversies which have occurred is the display of remains which were achieved but not displayed. Some African cultures are asking their return for burial.

The building is actually very small. Divided into studios for the artists, exhibit spaces and administrative/auditorium it is screened from the noisy street by a glass wall. The existing building has a "live" wall made of vegetation that grows in a frame attached to the existing building and gives the impression that it is new, but in fact, it is a reuse of an existing three story apartment building.
Jean Nouvel, the architect, has got a reputation in Paris of developing imaginative spaces from machined components. Similar to the Muse de Arabe (previous post), it combines program with a technical architecture which has partially been explored in the West.