The first exhibition from the perspective of indigenous peoples, Amazonia offers an enlightened view of this region of the world and its inhabitants.

The Amazon is famous and known to all. However, beyond its lush vegetation, this region of the world remains shrouded in a certain mystery. Far from the stereotypical view still held today, the Amazon is presented as a cultural whole, formed by a multiplicity of peoples whose cultural and biological diversity is closely linked: creation of the world according to Amazonian cosmologies, diversity and fluidity of genders, links between humans and different forms of otherness (animals, plants, spirits, and Westerners), traditional and scientific knowledge, and networks woven between villages and urban areas.

Through more than 200 objects from the collections of the Musée du Quai Branly – Jacques Chirac and private collections linking contemporary art, ephemeral or immaterial art (languages, songs, body art) and previously unseen works (videos, photographs, installations), the exhibition presents the contemporaneity of Amazonian worlds across time and space, highlighting other conceptions of beauty and history.

Amazonia invites the public to discover, for the first time, this part of the world as a source of the future, where cultural diversity is an essential element, where knowledge of the forest and science are compatible, and where the worlds are not inhabited by humans alone.

This exhibition will be presented at the Musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac from Tuesday 30 September 2025 at Sunday 18 January 2026. Learn more.