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Musée Guimet

            The Musée Guimet was the brain-child of Emile Guimet (1836-1918), a Lyons industrialist who devised the grand project of opening a museum devoted to the religions of Ancient Egypt, Classical Antiquity, and Asia. Guimet visited Egypt and Greece before traveling around the world in 1876, stopping off in Japan, China and India. In the course of his travels he acquired extensive collections of objects which he put on display in a museum opened in Lyon in 1879. These collections were subsequently transferred to a new museum which he had built in Paris and which was inaugurated ten years later, in 1889. During Emile Guimet’s own lifetime, the museum, while maintaining a section devoted to the religions of Ancient Egypt, increasingly focused on Asian civilizations. (Source: Museum website)

The Musée Guimet hosts permanent collections as temporary exhibitions, such as the one I visited yesterday, devoted to the "Sacred Arts of Bhutan".

Taken in: France / Île-de-France / Paris / Paris 01 Ancien - Quartier Champs-Élysées (show map)

Taken on: January 17, 2010

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Musée Guimée

Arts asiatiques

Architecture

Paris

France « less

Sets appears in: • Art Deco Modernism - Paris & suburb • Paris 16e more » • Paris « less

Groups appears in: • Buildings/Architecture • "History & Antiquities (Post 5 - Award 3)"

Camera: Canon PowerShot A1100 IS, f/2.7, 1/60 sec, 6.2mm, ISO 320 (more info) (hide info)

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