Georges-Henri River
Georges-Henri Rivière is the founder of the Musée of arts and popular traditions with Paris.
Born on June 5th, 1897 1, in Paris, studies the music until 1925, takes the taste of the museums while following, 1925 to 1928, the courses of the school of Louvre then becomes preserving collection David Weill. It reorganizes the museum of Ethnography of Trocadéro, which will become the Musée of the Man. Under the direction of Paul Rivet, it presents to it some 70 exposures of 1928 to 1937.
From 1937 to 1967, he invents, designs and carries out the Museum of arts and traditions popular which he manages to install on his current site, in edge of the Bois de Boulogne. He will develop a revolutionary museography to with it and scientific crowning by the creation of the Center of French Ethnology will ensure some. Large discoverer of talents, born leader, it plays a crucial role in the foundation of the ICOM (International counsel of the museums) and in the invention of the concept of écomusée. Environment, multidisciplinarity, were its governing ideas on which were based, inter alia, Co-operative Research on Program of Aubrac and Châtillonnais in the years 1960. Even at the end of its life, it will not cease advising, innovating and instigating those which continued its work.
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