[2025 Paris Attraction] Travel Guide for Guimet Museum (Updated Jun)

A place where you can truly experience the Western perspective on Eastern culture. A magnificent museum comparable to the Louvre Abu Dhabi. Highly recommended, make sure to visit! 😍 There are also many artifacts from the Silla Dynasty here. It was fascinating to see them in Paris. Personally, it's one of the most satisfying museums I've visited recently.

👈🏻There are tens of thousands of Chinese cultural relics in the Guimet Museum of Asian Art in France. The most famous of these is a Liao tri-color arhat statue. The key is to be extremely realistic! Very realistic! It feels like a real person is sitting there. 👈🏻In 1912, the Liao tri-color Arhat statues in the Bafowa Cave in Yi County, Hebei Province were discovered by a German antiquities dealer named Parkinski. He secretly resold the Arhat statues to various parts of the world several times, and some of them were destroyed in the process. This Liao Dynasty tri-color arhat statue, collected by the Guimet Museum in France, was resold to France by Parkinsky. 👈🏻 There are a total of 16 Liao tri-color Arhat statues. At least 3 of them were destroyed during the theft and smuggling out of the country in the early 20th century. So far, only 11 statues are still in existence and their whereabouts are known. Its distribution: 1️⃣United States: ●Boston Museum of Fine Arts: There is one statue in its collection, but the head was damaged and then remodeled. ●Cleveland Museum of Art: There is one statue in its collection which is already incomplete. ●The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York: has 2 statues in its collection. ●Nelson-Atkins Museum in Kansas City: has 1 statue. ●University of Pennsylvania Archaeological Museum: has 1 statue in its collection. 2️⃣Canada: The Royal Ontario Museum has one statue, and the head is a replacement. 3️⃣United Kingdom: There is one in the British Museum in London. 4️⃣France: There is one in the collection of the Guimet Museum of Asian Art in Paris. 5️⃣Japan: One statue was formerly owned by a private collector in Japan and later went into a museum. 6️⃣Russia: There is one statue in the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg, and only a bust remains.

Exhibition Hall: Guimet National Museum of Asian Arts Address: 6 Place d'Iéna, 75116 Paris Gallery: Second Floor Rotunda Dates: September 18, 2024 - January 13, 2025 10:00-18:00, last admission 30 minutes before closing, closed on Tuesdays, December 25, and January 1 Fee: Admission Ticket This exhibition, one of the special exhibitions commemorating the 60th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and France, is jointly organized by the Guimet National Museum of Asian Arts and the Xi'an Qujiang Museum of Art. It features 72 sets of a total of 134 pieces of Ming Dynasty goldware from the collection of the Xi'an Qujiang Museum of Art. The exhibition aims to invite visitors to go beyond the aesthetic level and delve into the practical value, craftsmanship, and symbolic significance of Ming Dynasty goldware. In ancient China, goldware, like bronze, jade, and silk, was regarded as a symbol of wealth and status. During the Ming Dynasty, gold craftsmanship reached an unprecedented level of luxury and refinement, with a focus on auspicious and festive meanings, making it a representative of the most exquisite and intricate gold craftsmanship in Chinese history. Selected Exhibits Filigree Inlaid Phoenix-Shaped Gold Hairpin, Ming Dynasty Filigree Eight Treasures Hexagonal Floral and Halberd Decorated Gold Vase, Wanli Period of the Ming Dynasty Cloisonné Inlaid Gold Ruyi, Wanli Period of the Ming Dynasty Filigree Palace Lantern Pair of Gold Hairpins, Ming Dynasty Dragon Head Inlaid Pearl Gold Hairpin, Wanli Period of the Ming Dynasty

The Guimet Museum is hosting the 'Au cœur de la couleur' exhibition from June 12 to September 16. The curation is aesthetically pleasing, organizing porcelain pieces by different colors, showcasing many exquisite works from the Kangxi, Yongzheng, and Qianlong periods. Some pieces, when viewed from certain angles, reveal the beauty and uniqueness of their patterns. The exhibition also provides many Chinese explanations, narrating the creation methods of white glaze, green glaze, black glaze, and eggplant-skin purple glaze, as well as their symbolic meanings and connotations. Coupled with poetry, colors, and lighting effects, it demonstrates the significant role of porcelain in Chinese art and culture. Date: 2024.6.12-9.16 Location: Guimet Museum of Asian Arts, 6, place d'Iéna - 19, avenue d'Iéna, 75116 🎫: 13 euros

#MayTravelSupportEvent This is the museum where Hong Jong-woo, who shot Kim Ok-gyun, worked when he was living in France. That's why when you go to the Korean section, you get the feeling that Korea is covered in some detail. You can see very large and large-scale exhibitions at the British Museum or the Louvre Museum in France, but this is a place where you can see various Buddhist cultural assets from the East in great detail, so it's secretly popular with Westerners.

Once you are there, you will get inspired by all the ancient cultures and sculptures there, especially the one from Cambodia when you first entrance. You would feel amazed by the welcome of KHMER RICH CULTURE AND HIGH CIVILIZATION.#Guimet

A beautiful museum to visit in Paris: the Musée Guimet. Oriental culture and artifacts in their most beautiful forms and representations in Paris