Le Musée Cannibale: Ridiculous

Le Musée Cannibale

A final Architecture Master Project, after the competition held in the late 1990' for a Museum in Paris. Somehow a retroactive Project, since the winning scheme, designed by Jean Nouvel, was inaugurated in 2006.

Musée Cannibale is the title of an exhibition held in 2002 at the Neuchatel Museum of Ethnography. The temporary exhibition was dedicated to the cannibalistic desire to feed on others, a desire which originally led to the creation and development of museums of ethnography. The collections of ethnographic museums, made up of vast numbers of objects acquired over a long period of time through expeditions in the field, bear witness to the desire to incorporate what is different, or other. The more radical the difference, the more it seems to be appreciated.

Thursday, June 4, 2009

Ridiculous

A few month ago, we enjoyed thinking of the project as a little-monumental-introverted-transparent building in Paris. We enjoyed the paradox of this absurd truncated pyramid (somehow half a icon), set next to the Eiffel Tower, the icon par excellence. A ridiculously small and ambitious project for the future Chirac Museum.

Le Musée Cannibale