global-journal-of-human-social-science-d-history-archaeology-anthropology Global Journal of Human-Social Science - D: History, Archaeology & Anthropology 0975-587X 2249-460X Global Journals Publishing Group Incorporated 62116 The Museums of Algeria in the French Historiographical Field Archaeology of Colonial France and Algerian Museums BetrouniDr. Mourad ALGERIA 25 03 2023 23 D2 55 77

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”.

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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”