Musée de l'Homme

The Museum of Man is a museum established by the French ethnologist Paul Rivet in 1937 and is an extension of the Museum of Ethnology in Trocadero, which was established in 1878. The Museum of Man is a research center under the supervision of several French ministries and the National (French) Center for Scientific Research CNRS, and the Museum of Man is One of the seven departments that house the National Museum of Natural History in Paris.

The Museum of Man occupies the largest part of the "Bassi" wing of Chaillot Palace in the 16th administrative district. The museum also went through a period of renovation and restoration, it was decided to close it from March 2009 to 2012, and an amount of 52 million euros was allocated for this renovation process.

The Museum of Man inherited its holdings from historical collections collected from the 16th century onwards from antique shops and from royal stores. These collections were added during the 19th century, and these artifacts remain today. The aim of establishing this museum was to collect everything related to man: human evolution (prehistoric times), human groupings and differences (anthropology or anthropology), and what expresses the social and cultural life of man (ethnology).

The skull of Suleiman al-Halabi, the Syrian Azharite student who killed General Kléber, commander of the French campaign in Egypt. Written under the skull is the word criminal in French. Skull of the French philosopher Rene Descartes. Venus of the Hottentots (on display at the museum until 1974)