THE ROYAL COLLECTIONS FROM NORTH AMERICA
About CRoyAN
The quai Branly - Jacques Chirac museum preserves a unique collection of objects from the present-day territories of Canada and the United States, collected between 1650 and 1850. These pieces, first integrated into royal and then national collections, attest to the cultural and diplomatic exchanges between native nations and Europeans.
The multi-disciplinary and collaborative CRoyAN project - Royal Collections of North America - was initiated to gain a deeper knowledge of these collections. It combines historical research, scientific analysis and collaboration with aboriginal communities to better understand and preserve this heritage.
CRoyAN Project : Royal Collections of North America - Musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac
The French royals collections
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Exhibition « Wampum / Otgoä »
The Wampum / Otgoä exhibit is the culmination of three hundred years of relationship building and…
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Behind the Scenes of the Choctaw Video for the Exhibit “An Inquisitive Prince”
Although the “An Inquisitive Prince” exhibit at Versailles closed in December 2021, our teams…
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Exhibition « Wampum. Beads of Diplomacy in New France »
Shell beads from North America known as wampum are more than just a raw material transformed into…
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Gradhiva n°33 - Wampum : les perles de la diplomatie
This issue of Gradhiva traces the tracks of the surviving examples of wampum in France, which are…
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The Workshop "Tanning Hides"
Identifying the tanning process used on a hide held in a museum is no easy task, unless you are -…
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Private Viewing of the Exhibition "An Inquisitive Prince"
In the history of what are generally termed the French 'Royal' collections, there is one that has…
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