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Musee du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac

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Plumes from Paradise

Musee du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac · Paris, France · 12 May to 8 Nov 2026

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About 190 objects, including jewellery, paintings, taxidermy specimens, fashion items and prints, tracing five centuries of how birds of paradise from New Guinea were collected, depicted and traded across Oceania, Asia and Europe.

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