Key figures
- Opening date: June 23rd 2006
- Visitor numbers: approx. 1,350,000 visitors / year
Exhibition Spaces and Storage
- Main collections level: 5300 m²; 3500 works from Africa, Asia, Oceania and the Americas, with a rotation of about 500 works per year; 150 multimedia programs
- Garden Gallery: 2,000 m²
- East Mezzanine: 700 m²
- West mezzanine: 750 m²
- Martine Aublet Workshop: 200 m²
- Pavillon des Sessions, satellite of the musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac at the musée du Louvre: 1200 m²; 108 works from Africa, Asia, Oceania and the Americas
- Stores: 6,000 m²
- The musical instrument tower: 700 m², 16 meters in diameter
The Collection
- 300,000 works from Africa, Asia, Oceania and the Americas
- 700,000 heritage and contemporary photographs
- 320,000 documents (books, periodicals, audiovisual materials ...)
- 8,000 works in the History Collection (prints, paintings, sculptures, etc.)
- 10,000 musical instruments
- 25,000 textiles or clothing
Green Spaces
- Garden: 17,500 m² (total land area: 27,700 m²), 169 trees, 900 shrubs, 70,200 ferns and grasses
- Green wall: 800 m², 150 cultivated species, 15,000 cultivated plants
Reception and Event Spaces
- Claude Lévi-Strauss Theater: 490 seats (including benches)
- Cinema: 100 seats
- Media Library and Jacques Kerchache Reading Room: reading spaces of 1,350 m², i.e. 250 seats (4 rooms)
Teaching and Research
- 3 classrooms – 66 seats
- Muséothèque: one room of 80 m², two rooms of 50 m²