Parts of this collection began to be transferred to the Ethnographic Museum of the Trocadéro in 1910 and in 1917; the last colonial rooms were closed just after the 1931 Paris Colonial Exhibition.
Bagian dari koleksi ini mulai dipindahkan ke Museum Etnografi Trocadéro tahun 1910 dan 1917; ruangan kolonial terakhir ditutup setelah Pameran Kolonial Paris 1931.