A museum, cultural centre and place for research and education all rolled into one, the musée du quai Branly was born from the political will to honour non occidental cultures and civilisations.

Comprising a collection of some 300,000 objects, the permanent exhibition is organised into four geographical areas: Asia, Africa, the Americas and Oceania. The museum has made an open and dynamic choice for its slogan: “Where cultures meet in dialogue”. This slogan guides the work conducted by the museum in most of its areas of activity: cultural programming, the dissemination of knowledge and expertise and sharing of this knowledge with the cultures from where the collections originated, international cooperation and making the collections available to others.

Focused on this approach of promoting contemporary creativity in these four continents (especially photography), the musée du quai Branly has launched in 2008 an artistic creation program.

Each year, this program will allow contemporary Non-European artists to present a project that offers a connection with the musée du quai Branly‘s mission in Paris.

In 2011, the candidates’ project can propose a work based on the Pavillon des Sessions, located south of the Louvre Museum (see attached document), conceived both as a display and/or regarding to the 120 non occidental artifacts there presented. The musée du quai Branly can plan an exhibition of one of the laureates’ projects in the context of Photoquai 2013 (the musée du quai Branly Photo Biennial).