The Rendez-vous followed by these pictograms are transcribed in French sign language LSF (for the hearing-impaired) and /or accessible to blind or seeing-impaired persons
magnetic induction-loop devices are now available at the main reception of the museum, in the lobby. This equipment is free and lent in exchange for an ID
Open to all visitors, young or old, the museum's resource center presents a panorama of the art and culture of Africa, Asia, Oceania and the Americas: exhibit catalogues, art books, atlases, and stories, as well as journals.
You can access the document portal: scientific document catalogues, with a wealth of electronic resources, as well as a selection of CD's and DVD's that can be consulted, on site.
Meetings designated by the letters "LSF" (French acronym for "French Sign Language") are transcribed in sign language for the hearing impaired.

* autour des expositions actuelles
(Teotihuacan, Artistes d'Abomey, Présence Africaine)
* ou des expositions passées
(Tarzan !, Le Siècle du Jazz, Photoquai, etc.)
* autour des collections permanentes(œuvres filmées, série des arts du mythe...)
* des classiques du film ethnographique
(Robert Flaherty, Edward S. Curtis, Jean Rouch...)
* des entretiens avec de grands ethnologues
* des concerts ou documentaires musicaux,
des archives de musiques traditionnelles...
* etc..
Tables-rondes, conférences, projections de films documentaires, découvertes d'oeuvres issues des collections du musée, séances d'écoute...
Les Rendez-vous du salon sont nombreux et variés - leur entrée est libre dans la limite des places disponibles.
De l’usage des plantes, textes réunis et présentés par Yvonne de Sike ; Collection Eurasie n°19, L'Harmattan 2009.
Depuis 1977, la Société des Etudes euro-asiatiques étudie les échanges de toute nature qui ont marqué les modes de vie et les cultures des peuples de l’Europe et de l’Asie. Faisant appel aux meilleurs spécialistes, elle offre un lieu propice à la rencontre des savoirs et au dialogue de diverses disciplines :
ethnologie, histoire et archéologie, sciences des religions et des littératures.
On the program: a roundtable organized by the publishers of CTHS: identity in question – perspectives of an ethnologist...
To learn more about the news of publication and research
One Thursday a month, at 7pm, these roundtables convene actors from the contemporary art world, artists, curators, and theorists, who analyze the mutations induced in the art world by the generalized relationship of societies.
Learn more on the rendez-vous around the situations of contemporary art
Meetings, documentary screenings, guided visits, roundtables…numerous rendez-vous are programmed around the temporary exhibition of the museum: Artistes d’Abomey, Présence Africaine, or Teotihuacan, City of the Gods.
Click on the corresponding posters to know more
The adventure of a work: presentation of a work of collections, from its acquisition to its exhibition as well as its discovery on the web. Rendez-vous are accessible in sign language and to seeing-impaired persons during the readings shared in the dark (through use of facsimiles).
Documentary question: screening and presentation of films in the reading room, followed by discussions with the filmmakers. Next rendez-vous: Un sang d’encre (A Blood of Ink), by Jacques Goldstein and Blaise N’Djehoya
Musical rendez-vous : with the French Society of Ethnomusicology, a series of conferences and screening to discover, during the moments of privileged listening, the music of the world as well as the musical collections of the museum: musical instruments, sound and audiovisual recordings, etc.
Learn more on the rendez-vous around the collections
découvrez les rendez-vous du salon de lecture liés à la Fête de la Science ou à la 10ème édition du Mois du film documentaire...
en savoir plus sur les rendez-vous autour des événements nationaux

Meetings are free to the public, depending of avalability of space. No reservation necessary.
The Jacques Kerchache Reading Room can be accessed from the museum's main hallway.
To receive the Reading Room's listing of events, write to: mediatheque(at)quaibranly.fr
musée du quai Branly
37, quai Branly
75007 – Paris
Tel. : 01 56 61 70 00
tuesday, wednesday and sunday : 11am . 7pm
thursday, friday, saturday : 11am . 9pm
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