Curator of heritage in the Oceania section of the National Museum of African and Oceania arts (MNAAO), Yves Le Fur was then responsible for the museography in the Oceania section of the musée du quai Branly.

He has organized a number of exhibitions related to the art of Oceania, Africa, and the Americas, notably in 1999, Death will know nothing, relics of Europe and Oceania, as well as the exhibition for the opening of the musée du quai Branly in autumn 2006, The other from one perspective, History of European perspectives of Africa, America, and Oceania.

He is currently the director of the department of heritage and collections of the musée du quai Branly.