Description
From the Buddhas of Afghanistan to the Zen monks of Japan, from Indian fabrics to Samurai armour, and from Khmer treasures to Chinese fine art, the Musée Guimet offers unique collections which provide the opportunity to go on a meditative, aesthetic and explorative journey to the heart of Asia. Magnificently renovated in contemporary style, it is the largest European museum devoted to Asian art.
Architectural style
- Eclectique
Collections
- Armes
- Arts graphiques
- Bronzes
- Céramique
- Décors intérieurs
- Dessins
- Estampes
- Histoire
- Manuscrits
- Mobilier
- Objets de la vie quotidienne
- Objets du culte
- Peinture
- Religions d'Extrême-Orient
- Sculpture
- Spectacle vivant
- Textiles
Epoque des collections
- Rome antique (VIIe av JC au Ve ap JC)
- Paléochrétien (Ier - IVe)
- Byzance (IVe - XVe)
- Moyen Age (Ve - XVe)
- Roman (Xe - XIIe)
- Baroque (XVIe - XVIIe)
- Rococo (XVIIIe)
- Néoclassicisme (XVIIIe - XIXe)
- Romantisme (XVIIIe - XIXe)
- Réalisme (XIXe)
- Impressionnisme (XIXe)
- Symbolisme (XIXe)
- Fauvisme (XXe)
- Cubisme (XXe)
- Modernisme (XXe)
- Expressionisme (XXe)
- Futurisme (XXe)
- Dadaisme (XXe)
- Surréalisme (XXe)
- L'abstraction (XXe)
- Mouvement (XXe)
Garden
Services
Services and facilities of the establishment
- Educational activities
- Gift shop
- Bookshop
- Member of the Paris Museum Pass
- Restaurant
- Visitor tools
Languages spoken
- English
- Chinese
- Spanish
- Italian
Documentation in a foreign language
- English
- Spanish
- Italian
Visitor tools
Free and available for permanent collections in 8 languages: English, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Chinese, Korean and Japanese. Reserved solely for use by individual visitors.Educational activities
Story-visits for children and workshops for children and adultsRestaurant
Asian specialitiesPrices and times
Entrance fees and modalities
Independent tour
Permanent collections + temporary exhibition: €11.50 / €8.50 (concessions)
Guided tour
1hr: €4.20 / €3.20 (concessions). 1hr30: €6.30 / €4.80 (concessions)
Group tour
Email: resa@guimet.fr. - Fax: +33 (0)1 56 52 54 36.Free
Free for disabled people and an accompanying person, as well as job seekers and those receiving state benefits.
Free for young people and children
Permanent collections and temporary exhibitions are free for under 18s.Closing times
TuesdayOpening times
Exceptional opening
- Easter
- Easter Monday
- Ascension Day
- 8 May
- Whitsuntide
- Whit Monday
- 14 July
- 15 August
- 1 November
- 11 November
Events
Contact
Voir la carte
Musée national des Arts asiatiques - Guimet/MNAAG
6 place d'Iéna
75116
Paris
Tel.. +33 (0) 1 56 52 54 33
contact@guimet.fr
www.guimet.fr
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Subway - Iéna
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RER - Boulainvilliers
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Bus - 22, 30, 32, 63, 82
Disability
Offer adapted to disabled visitors
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Hearing
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Mental
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Physical
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Visual
Access facilities
- Loan of wheelchairs
- Free admission for disabled visitors on presentation of proof
- Free admission for the accompanying person
Accessibility information
- Accessible entrance via outdoor ramp, visitors must be accompanied
- Entrance located in the middle of the platform
- Parking spaces at 15-17 Rue Boissière
- Platform lift in the welcome area
- Lifts to access exhibitions floors
- Adapted toilets
- Welcome desk is easily identifiable and has a lowered section, but does not have leg room under the desk
- Folding seats available (on request)
- Buddhist Pantheon Galleries not accessible
- Auditorium on tha garden level can welcome wheelchair users in the upper section
- Information cards in the exhibitions are sometimes positioned too high and can be hard to access
- Some display cases not accessible (works/information cards not at an appropriate angle)
- Grab rail currently being installed in women's toilets; transfer of weight to the left in men's toilets
Visual impairment:
- Tactile tours: individual visits on set dates/group visits by booking at resa@guimet.fr
- Information cards in the exhibitions have good colour contrast but are sometimes slightly too high
- Audioguides do not include guidance or audiodescription; available in 8 languages
Hearing impairment:
- Guided tours in French Sign Language at the Musée Guimet and Musée d'Ennery: individual visits on set dates/group visits by booking at resa@guimet.fr
- Museum staff trained in French Sign Language
Mental disability:
- Educational wrokshops and specific group visits by booking at resa@guimet.fr
More details on accessibility
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