Paris in the springtime

 ...was wet, grey, freezing, and yet somehow still romantic.

Last March 2019 wonder | wander | women landed in Paris to see the Anting-anting exhibition in the Musée du Quai Branly Jacques Chirac, and spent a week wandering the city's museums.

The ancient souls of modern art: Musée du Quai Branly

The Paris museum of indigenous culture, Musée du Quai Branly Jacques Chirac, was created to showcase the art and artefacts of non-Western civilisations. In the classical art paradise of Paris, visitors tend to focus on European painters and cultural history, and less on the cultures that heavily influenced modern movements like Cubism and Impressionism.

Anting-anting: the secret soul of the Filipino

For the first time since 2013, the Musée du Quai Branly Jacques Chirac, the Paris museum of indigenous art, invited collaborators from the Philippines to present an exhibit on the mysterious objects of power that make up such a large part of Philippine life: the anting-anting.