Museum on the Quai Branly is not address, is the official name of the Museum of primitive art of the peoples of Africa, Asia, Oceania and America.

But address too, of course. Opened in 2006 on the initiative of French President Jacques Chirac, fond of Ethnography, the Museum is actually located on the Quai Branly, a few steps from the Eiffel tower. It is impossible to pass – it can be seen from afar: a huge plate-glass window and wall, all green. Mosses, flowers and vines. This is the famous vertical garden Patrick Blanc. Wall mounted metal frame, layers of polyamide that support the roots of plants, for the capillary downward flowing nutrient solution. Blanc, cheerful man with green hair, promotes vertical gardens around the world, the Branly Museum is one of the most famous of his projects. In winter, winds from the Seine sometimes damage plants, but in the rest of the year, the wall looks fantastic.

That part of the building that is not occupied by greenery, is no less surprising: it is multi-colored (mostly red and purple tones), stands on stilts, and the sides are bulging parallelepipeds of different sizes. The building was designed by famous French architect Jean Nouvel, and the garden in which it is located, is a landscape designer Gilles clément. From the promenade garden glass wall separates – 200 meters in length and 9 in height. For it you can go and free walk among the ponds and rolling hills, the scent of exotic flowers and feel a little bit in the jungle.

It is strange to remember that because there is actually a Museum. But it is worth a look, although from 300 thousand exhibits are only 3500 (their replacements are designed for several years ahead). Masks, figurines, Tom-Toms, tambourines, drums, carpets, hides, Tomahawks are all located in the hall without explanation and signs, at first glance, even haphazard. The meaning of this "chaotic" clear – peering into the foreign culture artifacts, the visitor inevitably begin to think, to compare, to think. However, on a collection of mummified heads of Maori warriors, he no longer think the Branly Museum had solemnly to return 20 tattooed heads to New Zealand, whose authorities have long ago demanded exported by Europeans subjects of national culture.

The Museum has a multimedia library, a theatre and a restaurant overlooking the Seine and the Eiffel tower, where dumbfounded tourist can finally get over it.