Musée National des Arts Asiatiques – Guimet

Founded in Lyon in 1879 by industrialist Émile Guimet and transferred to Paris in 1889. Houses over 60,000 treasures spanning five millennia of Asian civilization from India and Southeast Asia to China and Japan.

A luminous bridge between Orient and Occident, preserving the sacred iconography, Buddhist enlightenment, and artistic zenith of Asia.

In 1905, exotic dancer Mata Hari performed her sensational debut 'sacred Indian dances' in the circular library rotunda of the Musée Guimet before high society.