Musée des Arts d'Afrique et d'Océanie

The museum began as the colonial exhibition of 1931, was renamed in 1935 the Musée de la France d’Outre-mer, then in 1960 the Musée des Arts africains et océaniens due to the Franco-Algerian War. In the 1990s, the museum would remove many overtly colonialist materials and stress their artistic and heritage value. The museum became a department of the Louvre and became the Musée des Arts d'Afrique et d'Océanie. The museum remained marginalized within the Paris museum landscape, despite the new art historical, aestheticising and partly anthropological approach.
In 2003 the museum's collection was merged into the Musée du quai Branly, and in its place the Palais de la Porte Dorée now houses the Cité nationale de l'histoire de l'immigration. Its tropical aquarium remains in the cellar of the Palais de la Porte Dorée and is open to the public.