Musée Cernuschi, Asian art museum in 8th arrondissement, France
The Musée Cernuschi is an art museum housed in a 19th-century mansion in Paris that holds approximately 15,000 Asian works. The building, with its refined rooms spread across roughly 3,200 square meters, displays bronzes, ceramics, paintings, and sculptures from China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam.
The museum was established through the collection of an Italian banker who acquired artworks while traveling through China and Japan between 1871 and 1873. After his death, he left this collection to the city of Paris, where it remains on view in the museum named after him today.
The museum holds masterworks from different Asian cultures, showing how artists across millennia worked with similar themes and techniques. Throughout the rooms, you can see how Chinese, Japanese, and Korean artists each found their own ways to depict sacred figures and everyday objects.
The museum sits near Parc Monceau and is easily reached by subway. It opens Tuesday through Sunday, giving visitors time to move through the various collections across multiple floors and shape their exploration at their own pace.
The collection features an exceptional Japanese bronze Buddha from the 18th century that was long considered the centerpiece of the original holdings. This figure is sometimes known as the Buddha of Meguro and draws visitors interested in admiring Japanese craftsmanship.
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