Musée du quai Branly, Paris, France
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| Musée du quai Branly | |
| Designer | Jean Nouvel |
| Location | Paris, France |
| Date | 1999 to 2006 |
| Building Type | Museum |
| Construction System | steel, metal, concrete |
| Climate | Mild Temperate |
| Context | Urban |
| Architectural Style | Modern |
| Street Address | 55 Quai Branly Walk Score |
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| Building Details | |
| Client | Etablissement public du Musée du Quai Branly |
| Cost | 204.3 million Euro |
| Area | 76,500 square meters (823,000 square feet) |
| Program | Reference collections, Large gallery, small gallery, Media library, Reading room, rare collection room, new publications room, classrooms seating, discovery workshops, study rooms, Media library reserves, auditorium, administration, restaurant, bookshop. |
[edit] In the words of the Creator
"Presence-Absence or Selective Dematerialisation
"This is a museum built around a specific collection, where everything is designed to evoke an emotional response to the primary object, to protect it from light, but also to capture that rare ray of light indispensable to make it vibrate and awaken its spirituality. In a place inhabited by symbols of forests and rivers, by obsessions of death and oblivion, it is an asylum for censored and cast off works from Australia and the Americas. It is a loaded place haunted with dialogues between the ancestral spirits of men, who, in discovering their human condition, invented gods and beliefs. It is a place that is unique and strange, poetic and unsettling." - Ateliers Jean Nouvel
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- Project information. Ateliers Jean Nouvel web site. http://www.jeannouvel.com. Viewed by D. Owen, 2008.0404.
