Musée National Des Arts Asiatiques-Guimet - Guimet Museum

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Guimet Museum

 

The Guimet Museum, also known as the Musée national des Arts asiatiques-Guimet, can be found in

the 16th arrondissement of Paris, France at 6, place d'Iéna. In 1879, the museum was located in Lyon.

In 1885, it was handed over to the state and was transferred to its current location.

The museum, which was founded by industrialist Émile Étienne Guimet, is home to one of the largest and most comprehensive collections of Asian art located outside Asia. Guimet was very devoted to traveling.

In 1876, the minister of public instruction commissioned him to go to the Far East in order to study the different religions and cultures. The Guimet Museum holds many of the artifacts he came across during this expedition.

 

Guimet was able to acquire a fine collection of Japanese and Chinese porcelain and other religious objects both from the east and from other locations including ancient Greece, Rome and Egypt. Religious works of art are displayed in the Panthéon Bouddhique, which is one of the museum's wings.

Collections from the Kabul Museum were harbored in the Guimet Museum from December 2006 to April 2007. These include archeological Greco-Bactrian pieces from the city of Ai-Khanoum, and Indo-Scythian articles of Tillia Tepe.