Musée Guimet

Founded in 1889, the Musée Guimet presents the most complete collection of Asian arts in the world and the most outstanding in Europe. First established in Lyon and then transferred to Paris in the building Émile Guimet had raised on the hill of Chaillot, the historic building on the Place d’Iéna arose from his vast project to create a museum of religions in the wake of his pivotal travels in Egypt.