Museum of Natural History - Excerpt ethnographic collection
Description
The City of Lille manages a range of cultural facilities. Among these, three museums: the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Lille, the Musée de l'Hospice Comtesse and the Musée d'histoire naturelle, which mediate and preserve substantial funds.
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Focused on 5 continents, the ethnography department of the Natural History Museum is made up of about 13,000 objects illustrating the diversity and richness of the world's cultures. The geographical origin of the pieces is varied, there are approximately 4,200 objects from Africa, 3,855 from America, 2,150 from Asia, 1,375 from Oceania and 1,100 from Europe. They are very diverse in nature and illustrate the main areas of activity of the peoples of the world: Hunting, fishing, gathering, body ornamentation, social and cultural life, etc.
These objects, which are not permanently exhibited, are the subject of loans in many institutions in France but also abroad. They are also exhibited in the museum for temporary exhibitions.
This dataset lists a set of mostly Amazonian pieces from South America, including their names, provenances, users, states and original collections.
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- culture-tourisme-sport
- musee
- collections