In 2005, the Comité Traite Négrière/Esclavage (CTNE) (Committee Slave Trade/Slavery) rallied and set up a petition which obtained nearly 2,000 signatures, in order to install a plaque in homage to Tou
A statue in memory of Toussaint Louverture (1743-1803), former slave who became governor of Haiti and fought for its independence, was inaugurated in La Rochelle (former slave port) on the 20th of May
La Rochelle was a major slave port, and its Musée du Nouveau Monde (Museum of the New World) is a site of memory of slavery. The museum was opened in 1982 by Michel Crépeau, Mayor of La Rochelle.
The Musée des Arts décoratifs et du Design de Bordeaux (Museum of Decorative Arts and Design) was formerly a hotel that belonged to various wealthy merchants, completed in 1779.
The Musée d’Aquitaine was officially established in 1962 at the initiative of the museologist Georges Henri Rivière, but Bordeaux had gathered collections for much longer (1594).
In 2009, the museum
