For all those who dream of a change of scenery in these times of latent confinement, the Musée du Quai Branly-Jacques Chirac offers a trip to the land of rubber while, still in Paris, the Cernuschi Museum invites you to a walk on one of the roads that linked Edo. (present-day Tokyo) in Kyoto, once the seat of the Emperor of Japan.
These two exhibitions are beautiful and exotic like a
Tintin
album
.
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The Olmecs?
They impose themselves first by their colossal heads.
The smallest of these ten basalt sculptures found to date is that of a high dignitary.
With his helmet, he looks like a cosmonaut.
The coin is almost two meters high and weighs over a ton.
She comes from the Veracruz region in Mexico and, in the entrance hall of the museum of primitive arts, next to the ancestor head of Easter Island, serves as a prologue to an exhibition taking stock of the latest knowledge. concerning the mother civilization of Mesoamerica.
The Scarified Woman
, circa 200 AD.
AD, site of Tamtoc, State of San Luis Potosí.
Sergio Antonio Ortiz Suarez / Communication Department / Archivo Digital de las Colecciones del Museo Nacional de Antropología-INAH-CANON / Colección Zona Arqueológica de Tamtoc
“In popular imagery, the Olmecs are
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