Abstract
Georges Henri Rivière was born in 1897. Under Professor Rivet, was in charge of the installation, in the Palais de Chaillot, Paris, of the Musée de l’Homme, of which he was Assistant Director from 1928 to 1937. Then became Chief Curator of the Musée National des Arts et Traditions Populaires of which, with the help of a team of enthusiastic workers, he assembled the collections and documentation, and prepared the programme for the building where it is now installed in the Bois de Boulogne. From 1947 to 1965, Director of the International Council of Museums (ICOM) of which he remains the permanent adviser. Since 1970, Lecturer in contemporary general museology at the Paris I and Paris IV universities. Author of numerous works which are still fundamental for training in this new discipline.
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