Jardin d'Acclimatation, decided, in 1877, to organize two ethnological exhibits that also presented Nubians and Inuit. That year, the audience of the Jardin d'acclimatation' doubled to one million. Between 1877 and 1912, approximately thirty ethnological exhibitions were presented at the Jardin zoologique d'acclimatation.

These displays were so successful they were incorporated into both the 1878 and the 1889 Parisian World's Fair,