Guimet Museum

The Museum Guimet (French Musée national des Arts asiatiques - Guimet, in short: Musée Guimet ) is an initiative of the industrialist Emile Guimet in 1889 in Paris (16th Arrdt. ) Built, today museum of Asian art, the Jeannine Auboyer 1960 remodeled in 1991 called the " Panthéon bouddhique " annex advanced. At the museum has a small Japanese garden.

The aim of the located at the place d' Iéna museum is to bring close to a European audience the nuances between the various Far Eastern civilizations on didactic manner.

Fundus

The Musée Guimet has the largest collection of Asian religious and art objects outside of Asia. A part of the original fundus brought the museum founder himself of his numerous trips to Paris. Between 1927 and 1938, the collection was initially extended by expeditions to Central Asia and China. They also benefited from the establishment - on the occasion of the Universal Exhibition of 1937 - the Palais de Chaillot in so far as this, the Musée du Trocadéro had to give way, the Department of Arts of Indochina were fed to the Musée Guimet.