The museum was established at the initiative of Emile Guimet (1836-1918), industrialist and scholar, from Lyon. Through his travels in Egypt, Greece, then a world tour in 1876, with stops in Japan, China and India, it brings together important collections of art objects he presents to Lyon from 1879. Subsequently, he specializes in Asian art and transfer its collections in the museum he built in Paris and which was inaugurated in 1889. In 1927, the Musée Guimet is attached to the Directorate of Museums of France and includes other collections and bequests from individuals. It is now the largest collection of Asian art outside Asia.
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Currently, the museum's collections, relatively comprehensive in terms of geographical distribution of Eastern Asia, are limited archaeological objects or ancient arts and exclude contemporary art and ethnological objects.
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The library and roof were registered under the historical monuments in 1979. The library, created at the opening of the museum, is now specializing in ancient art and archeology of East Asia and Far East. Its collections exceed 1000 000 volumes.
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Guimet Who was?
A worker and an artist, an entrepreneur, a creator, a precursor to humanitarian, a scholar, collector and popularizer of religious arts. The son of an industrialist in the region of Lyon, the inventor of "artificial ultramarine, Emile Guimet succeeded his father and developed cottage industries. In addition to his inventive and administration Guimet created for employees of his companies a fund for accidents, workers' pensions, vocational schools, MHO etc. "Son of industrial, factory manager myself, I had spent my life in contact with the workers, I 'were constantly busy to give them the spiritual health and well being of the body. I founded schools, lectures, musical societies, associations for mutual aid, and I noticed that the creators of philosophical systems, the founders of religions had the same thoughts.
Thus, affected by las arts and ancient cultures while traveling in Egypt, he had the idea to travel, discover and works together to learn the arts and world religions. First Egypt, Greco-Roman antiquity, then Japan, China and India. His idea of the museum, initially based in Lyon, then moved to Paris in 1889 was to propose the study of religions and cultures to reflect and find solutions to contemporary problems of social and moral order.
Emile Guimet museum organizes its exhibition as a pictorial of all the gods of Roman culture, Greek, Indian, Tibetan, Chinese and Japanese. He also wants the museum to be "a laboratory of ideas", a research and reflection on religions and civilizations. A library is placed in the center. Of "entertainment" are presented by artists and dancers, such as Mrs. Mac Leod performing dances before becoming Hindu Mata Hari.
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