Musée Guimet

Emile Étienne Guimet, a French industrialist and traveler, turns personal research into one of Paris’s great Asian art collections. The museum is now known as the Musée national des arts asiatiques – Guimet, or Musée Guimet, and its name is tied to the founder’s ambition: to study the religions and cultures of the “Far East.” Guimet was commissioned in 1876 to examine Eastern religions, and the collections still reflect that expedition—especially in objects of Chinese and Japanese porcelain. The museum’s story begins not in Paris but in Lyon, where it first opened in 1879. It was later transferred to Paris, taking its place at 6, Place d’Iéna, and opening there in 1889. The building was designed by Jules Chatron, and the museum’s grounds cover about 4,005 m². One wing, the Panthéon Bouddhique, presents Buddhist artworks. …

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