Today our speaker came in to talk to us about the genealogy of the musee de l’homme. She also gave us a short introduction about how the French do not like the word race. She showed us various pictures of the museum. She talked a bit about the renovations and what the museum used to look like and what it looks like now. She showed us some images of the artifacts that are present in the museum. She talked about some of the background of how the museum was made. She also discussed Josephine Baker, which was interesting, I don’t think I have ever heard of her to be honest. This lecture was pretty interesting because we were hearing about the background of a museum we will be going to. We will know a little about the museum before we even get there which is pretty cool. She discussed the physical anthropology section a bit, which I was interested in because I used to want to study anthropology. She is very knowledgeable about this museum which to me is interesting that she has so much passion towards it. World War II era was discussed which was really fascinating, I took a class about the Holocaust last semester, so this was interesting to see other ways that that related to other things that I learn about.