The Museums of Algeria in the French Historiographical Field
This subject deals with a category of “artifacts”, here the Museum, which served or accompanied the enterprise of conquest-colonization of Algeria and the process of “putting into a museum” a people and a territory. The examination is considered from the perspective of a French historiography. The Museum is taken as keystone or “fossil director”, which confirms and authenticates the French colonial project, in its successive dismemberments, as argued by Arnauld Le Brusq: “The colonial museum is placed at the first plan of an archeology of colonial France because the museum turns out to be consubstantial with the colonial project”
