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Musée National des Arts Asiatiques-Guimet Frommer's Very Highly Recommended

Hours Wed-Mon 10am-6pm
Address 6 place d'Iéna, 16e
Transportation Métro: Iéna
Phone 01-56-52-53-00
Web site www.guimet.fr
Prices Admission 6€-8€ ($7.80-$10) adults, Free for ages 17 and younger
Season Closed Tuesday, December 25th, January 1st, May 1st

Frommer's Review

This is one of the most beautiful Asian museums in the world, and it houses one of the world's finest collections of Asian art. Some 3,000 pieces of the museum's 45,000 works are on display. The Guimet, opened in Lyon but transferred to Paris in 1889, received the Musée Indochinois du Trocadéro's collections in 1931 and the Louvre's Asian collections after World War II. The most interesting exhibits are Buddhas, serpentine monster heads, funereal figurines, and antiquities from the temple of Angkor Wat. Some galleries are devoted to Tibetan art, including fascinating scenes of the Grand Lamas entwined with serpents and demons.

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