Guided tour of the centenary exhibition - Musée national des Arts asiatiques Guimet

The centenary exhibition, which opens in June 2023, traces the highlights of the of the relationship between the Guimet Museum and the Society of Friends, evoking some of the its major figures: the Sanskritist Émile Senart (1847-1928), the financier David David-Weill (1871-1952), the explorer and Tibetologist Jacques Bacot (1877-1965) or archaeologist and sinologist Paul Pelliot (1878-1945). It also highlights the times the institution: during the second half of the 20th century, the war or the unrest that tipped Cambodia into the Third World. chaos (1970-1975). Since then, the SAMG has also spread, particularly to the United States,with the American Friends of Guimet Museum, and to Hong Kong.

This century of shared history is presented in the narthex on the 2nd floor of the museum, with unpublished archive documents as well as a selection of some thirty works entered in the exhibition in the collections of the Guimet Museum thanks to the generosity of the SAMG from 1933 to the present days. Some of them are now among the museum's most important masterpieces Guimet, covering all geographical areas, chronological periods and art techniques: Chinese, Indian and Tibetan statuary, paintings, prints and art objects from Japan, shadow theatre figures from Cambodia, ancient ceramics and contemporary.

Under the expertise of Mr. Pierre Baptiste, General Curator - Southeast Asia Section at the Guimet Museum, co-curator of the SAMG centenary exhibition