Global Journal of Human Social Science, D: History, Archaeology and Anthroplogy, Volume 23 Issue 2

© 2023. Dr. Mourad Betrouni. This research/review article is distributed under the terms of the Attribution-NonCommercial- NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). You must give appropriate credit to authors and reference this article if parts of the article are reproduced in any manner. Applicable licensing terms are at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/ 4.0/. The Museums of Algeria in the French Historiographical Field By Dr. Mourad Betrouni Summary- This subject deals with a category of “artifacts”, here the Museum, which served or accompanied the enterprise of conquest-colonization of Algeria and the process of “putting into a museum” a people and a territory. The examination is considered from the perspective of a French historiography. The Museum is taken as keystone or "fossil director", which confirms and authenticates the French colonial project, in its successive dismemberments, as argued by Arnauld Le Brusq: “The colonial museum is placed at the first plan of an archeology of colonial France because the museum turns out to be consubstantial with the colonial project”. Keywords: museum, historiography, archaeology, colonial, exploration, collection. GJHSS-F Classification: DDC Code: 914.210486 LCC Code: DA679 TheMuseumsofAlgeriaintheFrenchHistoriographicalField Global Journal of HUMAN-SOCIAL SCIENCE: D History, Archaeology & Anthropology Volume 23 Issue 2 Version 1.0 Year 2023 Type: Double Blind Peer Reviewed International Research Journal Publisher: Global Journals Online ISSN: 2249-460x & Print ISSN: 0975-587X Strictly as per the compliance and regulations of: