Guimet Museum,,,
The Guimet Museum (French: Musée national des Arts asiatiques-Guimet or Musée Guimet) is a museum of Asian art located at 6, place d'Iéna in the 16th arrondissement of Paris, France. It has one of the largest collections of Asian art outside Asia.
Description of Guimet Museum :
The Guimet Museum in Paris is probably the best Asian arts museum in the world.
The collections are the results of one hundred years of passionate search since 1876 by industrialist Emile Guimet and many other lovers of Asian art.
The Guimet Museum covers most Asian civilizations from India to Japan. The collections of Khmer art in particular are outstanding.
Combine to them the modern and relaxing interior architecture designed by architect Henri Gaudin.
You have a few hundred meters away from Palais de Chaillot one of the most remarkable out of the beaten track museums in Paris. We recommend it warmly.
History of Guimet Museum :
The museum which was first located at Lyon in 1879 and was handed over to the state and transferred to Paris in 1885,[citation needed] was founded by Émile Étienne Guimet, an industrialist. Devoted to travel, Guimet was in 1876 commissioned by the minister of public instruction to study the religions of the Far East, and the museum contains many of the fruits of this expedition, including a fine collection of Chinese and Japanese porcelain and many objects relating not merely to the religions of the East but also to those of Ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome. One of its wings, the Panthéon Bouddhique, displays religious artworks.
Panoramic view of the library in the Guimet Museum.
From December 2006 to April 2007, the museum harboured collections of the Kabul Museum, with archaeological pieces from the Greco-Bactrian city of Ai-Khanoum, and the Indo-Scythian treasure of Tillia Tepe.
Guimet Museum :