Musée du quai Branly in Paris

In the 1990s, a grand ethnological museum was conceived for Paris to house the collections of the Musée de l’Homme and the Musée des Arts d’Afrique et d’Oceanie. The ensuing competition was won by Jean Nouvel. He set the building in a large garden in which the different continents would be represented in planted form. To separate this world from...