Over some thirty years, Antoine de Galbert assembled a collection of more than five hundred headdresses from all four corners of the globe. In 2017 he donated the collection to the Musée des Confluences in Lyon. The fabulous diversity of these crowns, bonnets, hats, helmets and other headgear is proof of a simple fact: humanity covers its head. Their astonishing, not to say spectacular shapes and forms are presented in this extensively illustrated catalogue which examines both their nature and the status of the individuals who wear them.