Guimet research plan 2026 2030

Part 2 → The Villa Guimet research tools resources and partnerships

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Partnership policy

with scientific

institutions in France

and abroad

The Villa Guimet is positioned as the nerve centre of research within the museum .

Thanks to a restructured organization of documentary and archival resources ,

it will make it possible to ef fectively structure scientif ic programs , by mobilizing

dedicated teams , including doctoral students , post - doctoral students and

contract researchers . This mode of operation , based on various forms of funding

( projects , foundations , sponsorship ) , should also contribute to forging strategic

partnerships with major research institutions in France and abroad .

Yannick Lintz President of the musée Guimet signs the agreement with Luis Monreal of the AKTC

at the Ministry of Foreign Af fairs © musée Guimet Paris

Partnership policy

with national scientific

institutions

With this in mind , the Musée Guimet wishes to strengthen its links with its historical

partners , first and foremost the École Française d ' Extrême - Orient ( EFEO ) .

Since 1900 , these two institutions have worked closely together through the major

archaeological missions carried out in Southeast Asia . The desire to strengthen this

institutional partnership should be facilitated by the joint will of its current director ,

Nicolas Fiévé , and the President of the Musée Guimet , Yannick Lintz . In addition ,

the geographical proximity of these two institutions , on either side of Place Iéna ,

is also an asset for the attractiveness of researchers from all over the world .

Finally , the scientif ic collaboration of the two teams will be strengthened , like the

one that gave rise to the exhibition " Royal Bronzes of Angkor " in 2025 . Research

collaborations on India , Cambodia , Vietnam and Indonesia will be studied .    

Other university players in the Parisian landscape enrich this partnership dynamic .

First of all , the Joint Research Units ( UMR ) whose f ields of study intersect with those

of the Guimet Museum : among them , the Centre de recherche sur les civilisations

de l ’ Asie orientale ( CRCAO ) , under the supervision of the École pratique des hautes

études ( EPHE ) , the Collège de France , and Université Paris Cité ; ArScAn , dedicated

to Archaeology and Sciences of Antiquity ( UMR 7041 ) , overseen by the CNRS ,

Université Paris - Nanterre , Université Paris 1 , Université Paris 8 , the Ministry of

Culture , and Inrap ; as well as the Institut Français de Recherche sur l ’ Asie de l ’ Est

( IFRAE / UMR 8043 ) , af f iliated with the Institut national des langues et civilisations

orientales ( Inalco ) , Université Paris Cité , and the CNRS , among others . Within this

framework , the Villa Guimet could host doctoral students from these research

teams to contribute to the museum ’ s scientif ic programs .

Partnerships with major French museums and heritage institutions must be based

on a possible complementarity of corpus , such as the collaboration with the

Bibliothèque nationale de France in the f ield of research on Buddhist heritage from

Dunhuang , for example . Other joint projects — exhibitions , publications — will thus

be considered : for example , with the Cernuschi Museum , the Museum of Asian Arts

of the City of Paris , or the Museum of Decorative Arts .

Finally , the Musée Guimet wants to intensify research research on materiality of

the collections by studying both the composition of the materials and the

technologies , as presented in the f irst part of this plan . To do this , the projects will

rely on the expertise of specialized laboratories , f irst and foremost the Centre

for Research and Restoration of the Museums of France ( C2RMF ) , such as the

collaboration carried out for the study of the Angkor bronzes in 2024 / 2025 .

For certain materials such as textiles , other laboratories will undoubtedly be called

upon in France or abroad .

These national partnerships will be aligned with research programs related to the

museum ’ s collections . To strengthen this network with institutions under the

supervision of the Ministry of Higher Education and Research the Guimet Museum

has become a member of the GIS Middle East and Muslim Worlds It covers

complementary themes related to our collections and the archives kept at the

Musée Guimet and in particular those of Afghanistan Mughal India or more

generally those of Eurasian trade routes The upcoming accession to GIS Asia

should also strengthen this dynamic Participation in the congresses regularly

organized by these two bodies will allow meetings and dialogue with new

researchers especially young talents and to open the museum to new perspectives