A short stroll from Place du Trocadéro, at 6 Place d'Iéna, the Musée national des arts asiatiques — Guimet (MNAAG) is one of Paris's most fascinating museums. Founded by the Lyonnais industrialist and traveller Émile Guimet in the late 19th century, it now holds more than 45,000 works spanning the entire Asian continent — from Afghanistan to Korea, via India, China, Japan, South-East Asia and the Himalayas.
The museum is particularly renowned for its Khmer and Indian art collections, considered among the most important outside Asia. Its Chinese galleries hold pieces of exceptional rarity, from Shang dynasty ritual bronzes to East India Company porcelain. The Japanese wing immerses visitors in the fascinating world of ukiyo-e prints, samurai armour and Arita ceramics.
In 2024, the Musée Guimet launched its major "Guimet x China 2024" programme — an exceptional thematic season running from April 2024 to March 2025, celebrating the richness of Chinese civilisation through four simultaneous exhibitions, contemporary installations and a dense cultural programme. The flagship exhibition, devoted to the painter T'ang Haywen — a Chinese artist who settled in Paris in 1948 and whose more than 200 works entered the national collections — shed light on the dialogue between Asian monochrome ink tradition and Western lyrical abstraction.
In 2025, the museum presents until September the exhibition "Royal Bronzes of Angkor", bringing together over 200 works including 126 exceptional loans from the National Museum of Cambodia — a rare opportunity to contemplate pieces of breathtaking beauty bearing witness to the power and refinement of Khmer civilisation. For Maison Boissière residents, the Musée Guimet is accessible in under ten minutes on foot via Avenue Kléber.
