Musée Cernuschi
Henri Cernuschi founded the Musée Cernuschi in 1898, using the mansion that had been his home, and it remains one of Paris’s key addresses for Asian art. The museum was later folded into the public institution Paris Musées on 1 January 2013, joining 13 other City of Paris museums. A major renovation ran from 2001 to 2005, during which the museum closed; afterwards, its total exhibition space reached 3,200 m². A further renovation followed in 2019–2020. Inside, the collection grew from nearly 5,000 objects at the start to about 15,000 by 2021, with around 900 objects on permanent display. The museum’s strengths begin with China and Japan, and have expanded to include works from Korea and Vietnam. Among the most prominent permanent exhibits is the Buddha of Meguro, a Japanese bronze from the 18th century, originally collected by Cernuschi. …
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