"Au fil de l'or" at the Quai Branly Museum

    This major exhibition tells the story of the long love affair between this precious metal and mankind, and how it is used in the textile arts in different civilizations. 

In the Maghreb, the Levant, South Asia, China and Japan... For millennia, men and women have adorned their clothes, jewelry and accessories with gold.  

  

The exhibition also sheds fascinating light on mankind's love affair with gold. A metal from the sky, it conquered mankind as soon as it was discovered, and numerous civilizations have tried to add this bril