The objects collected by the museums almost never leave the institutions or town where they are curated. The website and its catalogue are a good way to give the collections back to the populations that made, gave or traded them and that have sparked off the creation of the museums.

The objects collected by the museums almost never leave the institutions or town where they are curated. The website and its catalogue are a good way to give the collections back to the populations that made, gave or traded them and that have sparked off the creation of the museums.

Today, the catalogue gathers the ethnographic collections about most of the Amerindian and Maroon populations settled around the Brazilian and Surinamese borders: Wayãpi, Wayana, Parikwene, Kali'na, Lokono, Teko, Ndjuka, Saamaka, Paamaka, Matawai... Tomorrow, other objects will be progressively added to the catalogue; other cultural groups (creoles, Hmong, Indonesian, Haitian...) and other collection types (archaeology, science and techniques, natural history...).

Created for the cultural groups that produced the collections, this website can also be a useful tool for researchers, students and professionals of the heritage field. It offers to the internet users a first approach of the cultural groups living on the Guiana shield.
Every object record gathers the usual information of a museum inventory, displays pictures and enables the users to add comments and to be answered by the administrators.

This participative side of the device will be very useful to document the collections. Indeed, everyone owns knowledge that is worth sharing.