New Exhibition Details The Exploitation of Human Zoos
Human Zoos: The Invention of the Savage, reveals the lives behind the sideshow attractions and human exhibits.
The Quai Branly Museum in Paris, France, a museum opened by Jacques Chirac dedicated to once-colonized cultures, has now come full-circle. Last week, a brand new gallery entitled Human Zoos: The Invention of the Savage opened, detailing the degrading practice of exploitation of colonial cultures for entertainment. The gallery traces the lives of 35,000 individuals that were displayed as freaks, novelties and savages in various sideshows, museums, and zoos around the world. Illustrating the divide between science and voyeurism, the museum highlights a phenomenon in our society that has perpetuated as long as there has been a society.
