Marie Perrier

Biographie

Marie Perrier is Curator in charge of the Africa and Oceania collections at the Musée des Confluences.

For more than ten years, Marie Perrier has been working on the conservation and enhancement of the museum’s African collections, following seven years dedicated to exhibition organisation. For the past two years, she has also been teaching at Jean Moulin Lyon 3 University on collection management and provenance research.

As part of her position at the Musée des Confluences, she regularly hosts colleagues from the African continent for specific research projects (2022: Boubacar Diallo – provenance research on the Guinea collections at the Musée des Confluences; 2023: Alassane Waongo – provenance research on the Burkina Faso collections at the Musée des Confluences; 2025: Abel Assefa Girmay – provenance research on Ethiopian shields preserved in France) or for capacity building and mutual exchange of experience (hosting fellows from the TheMuseumsLab programme every year since 2022).

As curator responsible for the African and Oceanian collections, she collaborates on exhibition projects at the Musée des Confluences, including Afrique. Mille vies d’objets (2023–2024), Magique (2022–2023), Une Afrique en couleurs (2020–2021), and Désirs d’art – the African Collection of Ewa and Yves Develon (2019). She also conducts research on the history of the museum’s collections. This year, she herself participated in the TheMuseumsLab programme.

She continues to develop the collections of the Musée des Confluences and their documentation by working on their updating and by collaborating closely with institutions and colleagues across the African continent.