In a museum context focused on the beauty of the object and the valorization of a French-Canadian culture, only the Indigenous heritage associated to the French religious or artistic universe of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries is promoted. Folk studies developed in French Canada at the beginning of the twentieth century, but their field of research dealt with popular French-Canadian tradition, and when Indian culture was treated, it was done so in connection with the Euro-Canadian influence. Recognition of a North American Indian collection assembled in the two most important museums of Québec, the Musée du séminaire and the Provincial Museum, will, however, succeed in 1983 with the setting up of the Musée de la civilisation, leading to the distinction of art and ethnographic collections.