National Museum of Asian Arts — Guimet Museum

Guimet Museum of Asian Arts (fr. Musée des Arts asiatiques Guimet) is a rich collection of art of the East and Asia. Initially industrialist Emile Guimet traveler and planned to create a museum dedicated to ancient and Asian art and culture. His trip to India, Egypt, Greece, China laid the foundation for the collection, which has become the main theme of the museum, which was founded in the late XIX veka.Uvlechenie Emile Guimet - collecting art - turned into serious collecting for the museum. Gradually ancient artifacts in the collection began to appear less and museum funds focused solely around the Asian theme. The museum passed private collections - Tibetan and Korean. Museums other countries have also contributed to the development - so get here Indochinese and Afghan collection.