Musée de l'Homme

The Musée de l'Homme features a long, curved limestone facade that splits the Trocadéro palace into two massive wings. It opened for the nineteen thirty-seven World’s Fair to showcase the story of humanity through biology, archaeology, and linguistics. When the Nazis occupied Paris, ethnologist Boris Vildé used the museum as a base for one of the first French Resistance networks. Members hid agents and smuggled intelligence until the Gestapo arrested the group, leading to the execution of Vildé and several colleagues in nineteen forty-two.