The Palais de la Porte Dorée in eastern #Paris was originally built to house the Paris Colonial Exhibition in 1931, but is now home to both a tropical aquarium and the National Museum of the History of Immigration. The site’s newly appointed director Pap Ndiaye speaks to us about France’s deep-rooted blind spot when it comes to race, how you run a museum when visitors are banned, and his plans to expand the museum’s focus to include the history of the transatlantic slave trade.
‘The reality of French society is that it is not colour-blind’
