Guimet research plan 2026 2030
The study of these inscriptions , which will involve researchers from dif ferent sources
( universities , IFEO , CRCAO , EFEO , Inalco and other research centres ) , may lead to
a more ref ined dating of the works , enrich their documentary f ile , and , more broadly ,
to the sharing of this new information via the computerised database of the
collections .
Study of movable Uyghur
printing characters brought
back from the Pelliot mission
Particular attention will also be paid to Uyghur movable printing characters , of which
the museum has some 950 items , brought back by Paul Pelliot ' s mission to Central
Asia between 1906 and 1909 . Although they were the first known in the world ,
they have only been studied in a very synthetic way . This is why an in - depth study
of the use of these characters seems more than necessary . It should be noted
that they do not constitute a complete " font " allowing the publication of a work ,
but that they have probably been used for the writing of certain types of texts .
After a restoration of the corpus with photographic shots and marking ,
a classif ication by typology and an identif ication of the types used , a database will
be built , integrating movable characters of the same origin preserved in other
institutions working on this corpus .
This research project will be carried out in partnership with the Centre for Research
on East Asian Civilizations ( CRCAO ) with the help of Alice Crowther , ATER
in Methods of Philology at the Section of Historical and Philological Sciences of
the École Pratique des Hautes Études - PSL . It is scheduled from September 2025 ,
over 15 half - days .
Research avenues
for contemporary art
The Guimet Museum is not only a museum dedicated to the Asia of the past .
It is also interested in contemporary Asia , in all its diversity and vitality . Consequently ,
research projects concerning the contexts of creation of artworks cannot exclude
contemporary art .
In France , the exhibition Magiciens de la terre , conceived by Jean - Hubert Martin in
1989 for the Centre Pompidou , symbolically marked a decisive turning point .
From the 1990s onward what is called contemporary art has been perceived
exhibited and collected on a global planetary scale
By nature devoted to one part of the globe the Asian continent the Guimet
Museum unquestionably has a leading role to play in this f ield from which it must
ref lect sketch out the contours of a policy and implement various initiatives
In this perspective a first step will consist in drawing up an inventory of the
museum s contemporary exhibitions and acquisitions whose study is inscribed
within the history of the collections This will involve identifying the assumptions
that have guided these choices such as their inscription within the long term
a continuous historical perspective or their passage through Paris an ethnocentric
perspective Rethinking these approaches will allow for a better account of the
richness of contemporary Asian art scenes
Research must also address a gap In fact during the 1990s most institutions
progressively included artistic productions created precisely at the time of their
realization that broadening their geographic scope was necessary As a result the
contemporary artistic avant gardes of the second half of the 20th century have
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