This article is an ethnographic account of visitors’ reception of the Musee du quai Branly in Paris, France. The museum, opened in 2006 as part of a renewal of French ethnographic museums, presents works from Africa, the Americas, Asia, and Oceania that were collected in colonial contexts. Based on interviews and observations of museum staff and visitors, we describe the scenography as an invitation to a journey that leads visitors to feel a sense of disorientation. The visit raises important questions about art and material culture, which we explore in the second part about the nature of the objects. The museum proposes no answers nor provides any historical contextualization, with the effect being that the “others” have vanished. Their objects are conserved in a place where visitors simultaneously encounter “others” and their disappearance. In the museum's silence, its method of display constructs the way visitors establish the connection between the exhibition and French colonialism.

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布兰利码头博物馆之旅：参观的人类学

本文是对法国巴黎布兰利博物馆游客接待情况的民族志记录。该博物馆于 2006 年开放，作为法国民族志博物馆更新的一部分，展示了在殖民时期收集的来自非洲、美洲、亚洲和大洋洲的作品。根据对博物馆工作人员和参观者的采访和观察，我们将布景描述为对旅程的邀请，让参观者感到迷失方向。这次访问提出了关于艺术和物质文化的重要问题，我们将在第二部分探讨这些物品的性质。博物馆没有提出任何答案，也没有提供任何历史背景，结果是“其他人”消失了。他们的物品被保存在一个游客同时遇到“其他人”和他们消失的地方。