ABSTRACT
This chapter explains how and why the notion of a museum without objects was chosen and why the notion of creolisation that was central to the project needs to be revisited. The history and culture of the vanquished and the oppressed is rarely embodied in material objects. The display of the itineraries of persons, objects, rites, culinary practices, ingredients of recipes, of sounds, show the routes of multiple levels of culture. The project: the Maison des civilisations et de lunit runionnaise (MCUR), a museum in a French postcolony of the Indian Ocean, Runion Island, launched in 2000 by Runion Regional Council. The longest social mobilisation in the French overseas departments in 2009, the end of the museum project, the increasing emergence of Blackness in hexagonal France, the entry of Aim Csaire into the Pantheon, the debate on national identity explores anew the notion of creolisation.
