If someone invented the idea of a city then it definitively should have taken Paris as a model. We are at the museums, gladly found me a new picture in my cd rom vault that should be in my blog for you and me. This is a very nice museum that should be visited more by all including me. Therefore, here is my take on the musée Guimet of Paris !!! Hope you enjoy the post as I.
At No 6 place d’Iéna in the 16éme arrondissement de Paris , see the National Museum of Asian Arts-Guimet, aka Musée Guimet inaugurated in 1889. The museum presents art collections from the countries of Southeast Asia, the Indian Ocean and Chinese ceramics. It is serve by the metro Iéna line 9. This is really an off the beaten path spot that should be visited more including me, love it in my eternal Paris.
The composition of the Guimet Museum is large too much for a simple post of mine, so will just name the main areas and the circuit to do the visit, You go into the ground floor where you will see the collections on Southeast Asia;and India, Move up to the first floor and see the collections on China ,Central Asia , Afghanistan and Pakistan, Himalayan Arts, and the Riboud Collection – Textiles, Continue on the second floor and continue on the collection of China, also, Korea, Japan, the library museum in the rotunda adjoining the Riboud Collection gallery, final, the last and third floor you finish with the collection of China as well as the Photographic collection. The museum’s collections, relatively exhaustive in terms of the geographical distribution of East Asia, mainly present archaeological objects or ancient arts, and have offered more diversification with the creation of a textiles department thanks to the legacy of Krishna Riboud. A place, although limited, is now also given to contemporary art through acquisitions and temporary exhibitions.
The museum was founded on the initiative of Lyon-based industrialist and collector Émile Guimet for the permanent presentation of his collection, previously housed at the former Guimet Museum (1879) in Lyon, the Guimet Museum in Paris occupies a neoclassical building specially constructed for this purpose from 1888 to 1889. A complete renovation and restructuring took place between 1994 and 2001. Today, it houses one of the most comprehensive collections of Asian art in the world. It includes a rotunda completed by two wings. Through travels to Egypt, Greece, and then a world tour in 1876, with stops in Japan, China, and India, he amassed significant collections of art objects, which he presented in Lyon from 1879. He subsequently specialized in Asian art objects and transferred his collections to the museum he had built in Paris, which opened in 1889.
Between 1878 and 1925, an Indochinese museum, a result of the discoveries of the explorer Louis Delaporte, occupied a third of the Passy wing of the old Palais du Trocadéro; The objects presented were then transferred to the Guimet Museum, except for 624 plaster casts from the Angkor temple which remained at the Trocadéro, donated in 1936 to the Museum of French Monuments, which is located in the new Palais de Chaillot.(see post) The Guimet Museum also manages the Buddhist Pantheon – Hôtel Heidelbach, nearby, and the Ennery Museum, also devoted to Asian art.
Theofficial Musée Guimet: https://www.guimet.fr/en/masterpieces
The Paris tourist office on the Musée Guimet: https://parisjetaime.com/eng/culture/musee-national-des-arts-asiatiques-guimet-p3588
There you go folks, worth the detour , me think while in Paris. This is the wonderful Musée Guimet. It will take more than a post to tell you all about it but glad to have found me a picture to give you a bit of an introduction. Again, hope you enjoy this post on the musée Guimet of Paris !!! as I.
And remember, happy travels, good health and many cheers to all !!!
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