Slide showing a colour picture of The Mus?e d'Ethnographie du Trocad?ro, the first anthropological museum in Paris, founded in 1878. It closed in 1935 when the building that housed it, the Trocad?ro Palace, was demolished.. Part of Box 198. Boswell Collection. Paris Exhibition. Slide number 53. The Exposition Universelle of 1889 was a World's Fair held in Paris, France from 6 May to 31 October 1889. It was held during the year of the 100th anniversary of the storming of the Bastille.