Guimet a Collection of Master Piece

#westerneurope I visited the Musée Guimet in Paris a few days ago and was truly impressed. The collection of Asian art is extensive and deeply atmospheric—many of the pieces felt like they carried a spiritual energy. I’m not usually superstitious, but there was something powerful and even a little eerie about the experience that stayed with me. The Guimet Museum is the largest museum in France and even in Europe for Asian arts. The building itself is outstanding with red facade and rock cut like caves filled with sculptures of mythical creatures. The collections of the museum were fascinating. They were from China, India, countries from Southeast Asia and some rarely seen Buddha statues and large sculptures from Cambodia. The curations for some important collections were in both French and English. In some artifacts from China, Chinese were displayed as well. When we visited, it happened to have two special exhibitions from China, one was for gold ware and jewelry from Ming Dynasty and another was exhibition for Tang dynasty. The both were amazing. We spent nearly five hours in the museum and felt not enough. Will highly recommend. The entrance is free if you have a museum pass. Even without, the price is reasonable. Well worth it. #travel #thingstodo #museums