Guimet

"Despite being an important part of contemporary culture, videogames hadn't yet found their place in museums," says Mr. Clais, an ethnologist and curator of the China section at the Musée Guimet, France's national museum for Asian arts, who wrote his doctoral thesis on videogames and computers.

The Art of the Videogame Gabriele Parussini 2011

Musée Guimet (Musée national des arts asiatiques),

Sèvres 2009

It is a group of 57 large porcelain vases of identical shape (model SR22, leaning heavily towards a shapely Chinese profile), all of which were made and decorated over the past two years and will henceforth reside in the permanent collection of the Musée Guimet (a.k.a. the Musée national des arts asiatiques).

Sèvres 2009

This one-room show is arranged in the top floor rotunda of the Musée Guimet, in which, for no particular reason, almost invariably I find myself the sole visitor — and Wednesday morning was no exception.

Sèvres 2009

Enough ways to feel like an unfit mother already without the added guilt of not taking your children to origami workshops at the Musée Guimet!

smoke 2008

Thierry Ollivier/Musée Guimet Statuette of a woman standing on a makara, possibly a furniture ornament (Begram, Room 10) 1st-2nd centuries AD Ivory National Museum of Afghanistan

Hidden Treasures of Ancient Afghanistan 2008

Thierry Ollivier/Musée Guimet Fragment of a bowl depicting bearded bulls

Hidden Treasures of Ancient Afghanistan 2008

Thierry Ollivier/Musée Guimet Ornament for the neck of a robe (Tillya Tepe, Tomb V) 1st century BC - 1st century AD Gold, turquoise, garnet, and pyrite National Museum of Afghanistan

Hidden Treasures of Ancient Afghanistan 2008

Thierry Ollivier/Musee Guimet A year later, the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan, and the excavations ceased.

The Ancient Riches of a Land 2008

Thierry Ollivier/Musée Guimet Dagger with hilt depicting animals and a dancing bear (Tillya Tepe, Tomb IV) 1st century BC-1st century AD Iron, gold, and turquoise National Museum of Afghanistan Thierry Ollivier/Musée Guimet Pair of pendants depicting the "Dragon Master" (Tillya Tepe, Tomb II) 1st century BC-1st century AD Gold, turquoise, garnet, lapis lazuli, carnelian, and pearl National Museum of Afghanistan

Hidden Treasures of Ancient Afghanistan 2008