``We chose this name a bit arbitrarily but also partly out of humility because it seemed arrogant to us to claim to exhaustively and positively define within a title what would be the ambition of an institution like the Quai Branly,'' said Martin.
Although the museum is still under construction, curators already are preserving and archiving the nearly 300,000 pieces to make the collection more user-friendly. They are treating organic objects -- feathers or animal hides, for instance -- against insects and larvae and photographing the pieces and marking them with bar codes. Eventually the entire collection, including details such as the weight, size and history of each piece, will also be displayed on the Internet.
Museum's site: www.quaibranly.fr
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