translated into English is the National Museum of Asian Arts-Guimet, or Guimet National Museum of Asian Arts.

History

Founded by Émile Étienne Guimet, a French industrialist and traveler, the museum first opened in Lyon in 1879 but was later transferred to Paris, opening on the Place d'Iéna in 1889. Devoted to travel, Guimet was in 1876 commissioned by the minister of public instruction to study the religions of the Far East,

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