The Musée Guimet, or Musée national des arts asiatiques- is home to one of the largest collections of Asian art outside of Asia. The museum was founded by the industrialist Émile Étienne Guimet. Devoted to travel, Guimet was in 1876 commissioned by the minister of public instruction to study the religions of the Far East, and the museum contains many of the fruits of this expedition, including a fine collection of Chinese and Japanese porcelain and many objects relating not merely to the religions of the East but also to those of Ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome. One of its wings, the Panthéon Bouddhique, displays religious artworks. Some of the museum's artifacts were collected from Southeast Asia by French authorities during the colonial period.
Musée national asiatiques – Guimet
6 place d'Iéna, 75116 Paris
Subway - Iéna
RER - Boulainvilliers
Bus - 22, 30, 32, 63, 82