Benoît Roux, laureate of the research grant on the history and route of collections (National Library of France – Musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac) 2021-2022

Since 2020, the Bibliothèque nationale de France and the musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac have been offering two grants intended to promote research by post-docs and teacher-researchers around the theme of the history and the route of non-European collections. within the two institutions.

For this second edition, one of the two laureates is Benoît Roux, doctor of history and research engineer at ERIAC, for his project “The foam of the world. From one shore to the other: inventory and perspective of exotica of the Museum of Antiquities (XVIII^e-XXI^e century) ”.

| Official press release from the BnF

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