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The collection today assembles 7000 works of art, sculptures, masks, textiles, and objects of prestige or corporal adornment. This unique store, constantly enriched by Jean Paul Barbier, constitutes the greatest collection of primitive art in the world. The principal sectors are, in order of importance, Africa, the East Indies ("primitive" Indonesia), Oceania, the Americas (pre- and post-Colombian), tribal Asia, and, in a more general manner, the prehistoric or archaic phases of great civilisations (Greece, Italy, Japan, the East Indies).

La collection compte aujourd'hui plus de 7'000 pièces et comprend des úuvres d'art de l'Antiquité tribale et classique, ainsi que des sculptures, tissus, ornements provenant des civilisations dites "primitives" du monde entier.