“To indicate the general state of civilization of ethnic groups in space”: this was the concept of an ethnographic museum imagined by E. Pittard, with a view to restructuring the two “comparative ethnology” showcases of the Archeology Museum, in Mon-Repos Villa. Enriched by the Missions Museum’s collections, the initial installation of 1901 was finally designed as an invitation to travel imbued with exoticism, far from the classification dear to Pittard. F. Morin/MEG