Paris to unveil tribal art museum
French President Jacques Chirac is due to unveil his legacy to the nation - a 260m euro (£180m) riverside museum in the shadow of Paris' Eiffel Tower. The museum will display indigenous art from Africa, Asia and Australasia. It is the first major museum to open in the French capital since the Pompidou Centre in 1977.The Musee du Quai Branly, on the banks of the River Seine, has been a decade in the making. It combines angular glass walls with futuristic cubes of bright colour and, outside, a green wall of thick vegetation, suggestive of a forest or a jungle.
The museum was designed by French architect Jean Nouvel, and is meant to be President Chirac's legacy after nearly 12 years in office.
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