The Mint and its Marvels in Paris

Published on 08 June 2022, by Stéphanie Pioda

The Monnaie de Paris (Paris Mint) is hosting a show about money in use around the world, presented as a cabinet of curiosities.

Santa Cruz Island, the Salomon Archipelago, Melanesia, late 19th century, tevau or... The Mint and its Marvels in Paris

Santa Cruz Island, the Salomon Archipelago, Melanesia, late 19th century, tevau or teau wedding money, Myzomela cardinalis feathers, bark, plant fibers, shells, organic matter.
© Galerie Meyer-Oceanic Art & Eskimo Art/Raphaële Kriegel

Curator Bérénice Geoffroy-Schneiter has kept her promise: “showing the ability of the objects gathered in this exhibition recalling cabinets of curiosities to amaze and creating surprise by shifting and destabilizing the Western gaze, which reduces the word 'money' to merely a simple…

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