Cité nationale de l’histoire de l’immigration Le Palais de la Port Dorée, Paris Museum of the Immigration permanent exhibition: Repères

L’exposition permanente Repères présente, dans une approche croisée des regards et des disciplines, deux siècles d’histoire de l’immigration : témoignages, documents d’archives, photographies et œuvres d’art se répondent dans un espace interactif, au rythme d’un parcours historique et thématique qui relate les temps forts de l’histoire de France depuis le 19e siècle [visit the exhibition website].

As everyone can understand even in the website of this museum/information centre there is no other language than French: and this is already a sign of the all exhibition and curatorial design quality. This is a space (impossible to call it either museum either an information centre) where actually the rhetoric of the French Nation-State is pervasively performing in opposition with what eventually should have been the programme of such a place (namely: [...]