The ressources

To obtain these objectives, the museum has a diversified group of resources in the service of research and teaching. The department has around ten positions annually to welcome research for variable periods. It can also provide each year  doctoral and post-doctoral grants, as well as a dissertation prize to contribute to the publication of remarkable work.

The researchers and teachers affiliated with the museum – as well as intellectual societies – will have at their disposal

• A contingent of offices equipped with offices,
• Three classrooms,
• Five study rooms for objects near storage,
• And finally, based on their availability, a 399-seat theater and a 100-seat film hall.

They will also enjoy instruments supporting research established by the library:

• A research library with 180 seats, approximately 250,000 documents (printed, recorded, and audiovisual), 25,000 of which are readily available to all users,
• A special collections consultation room,
• A series of document databases accessible via internet (data bases of the collection of works illustrating and documenting the entirety of objects related to the museum collections, catalog of the library, photo collection – 700,000 documents -, reference database of collections of ethnographic films, annotated directory of scientific sites, etc.),
• As well as on-line scientific journals.

The teams and individual researchers welcomed into the department can have a dynamic and interactive usage of the Internet by placing on the document website of the museum basic articles open to commentary, as well as their publications they wish to make accessible to the public during their period of association with the museum.