57 Guimet research plan 2026 2030

Annexes

Organizational chart

of the scientific team

Japan

Southeast Asia

Afghanistan - Pakistan

Contempory art

China

Himalayan world

Photographies

Villa Guimet

Korea

India

Scientif ic team

Estelle Bauer

Japanese Collections

Hélène Bayou

History of the Collections

of Japan

Arnaud Bertrand

Collection de Chine

ancienne et de Corée

Cristina Cramerotti

Library

Claire Déléry

Chinese Ceramics

Collections

Hélène Gascuel

Textile and Chinese

Art Collections

Huei chung Tsao

China Collection

Valérie Zaleski

Collections of Buddhist art

from China and Central

Asia and Chinese painting

Lise Mész

Director

of Villa Guimet

Anaya Pramod

Documentation Of f icer

of the Documentation

Department s collections

Édouard de Saint Ours

Photographic collections

Cristina Cramerotti

Library

Claire Cotard Florentin

Head of the Archives

Department

Pierre Baptiste

Director of collections

and conservation

Evelise Bruneau

Southeast Asia

Collection

Nicolas Engel

Afghanistan – Pakistan

Collection

Cécile Dazord

Contemporary Art

Collection

Arnaud Bertrand

Ancient China

and Korea Collection

Amina Okada

Indian Collections

Thierry Zéphir  

Himalayan World

Collection

Édouard de Saint - Ours

Photographic collections

Biographies of the

curator - researchers

Pierre Baptiste

Director of collections

and conservation

Director of Collections and Conservation at the Musée

Guimet , Pierre Baptiste has been in charge of Southeast

Asian arts since 1996 . An art historian and lecturer at the

École du Louvre ( Paris ) and at the Faculty of Archaeology

of the Royal University of Cambodia ( Phnom Penh ) , he

directed the renovation of the Musée Guimet ' s rooms

devoted to Southeast Asia ( 1996 - 2001 ) before renewing

ties with his colleagues at the museums of Cambodia ,

Vietnam and Thailand . Author of in - depth articles on

specif ic subjects related to the arts of these countries ,

he participated in the writing and scientif ic direction of

several books devoted to these fields ( French

Archaeological Missions in Vietnam , the monuments of

Champa , photographs and itineraries , 1902 - 1904 ;

Khmer Art in the Collections of the Musée Guimet ) and

has been the scientif ic curator of exhibitions organized

at the Musée Guimet on these issues ( Treasures of Art

of Vietnam - The Sculpture of Champa ; Dvaravati :

The Sources of Buddhism in Thailand Angkor the birth

of a myth Louis Delaporte and Cambodia The Descent

of the Dragon Royal Art of Vietnam which have led

to the publication of catalogues of which he is

the scientific director In 2025 he was co curator

of the exhibition Royal Bronzes of Angkor an Art

of the Divine

Estelle Bauer

Japanese Collections

Holder of a doctorate from Inalco and a degree in art

history and archaeology obtained from Paris IV

Estelle Bauer did most of her studies in Japanese art

history in Japan , where she stayed for more than f ive

years . She was successively lecturer and professor of

classical Japanese civilization at Inalco from 2001 to

2024 . She has also taught at the École du Louvre , the

Institute of East Asian Art History at Heidelberg

University , and Columbia University . His field of

research and publications focus on narrative painting ,

in particular horizontally unrolled paint rollers ( emaki ) ,

the portrayal of The Tale of Genji , the evolution of

discourses on painting ( 11th – 17th centuries ) and , more

recently , the diplomatic gifts offered to European

countries in the 1860s . In 2021 , she was co - curator of

two exhibitions : Love , War , Party . Wonders of Japanese

Narrative Art in the European Collections ( Rietberg

Museum , Zurich ) and Japanese Objects from the

Château de Fontainebleau . Art and diplomacy

( Château de Fontainebleau ) . Since 2024 , she has held

the position of curator of Japanese collections at the

Musée Guimet and curates the Manga exhibition .

Quite an art ! scheduled from November 19 , 2025

to March 9 , 2026 .

Hélène Bayou

History of the Collections

of Japan

Hélène Bayou has been a curator at the Musée Guimet

in charge of the Japanese Arts section since 1991

In this capacity she has taught at the École du Louvre

and organized several exhibitions on the arts of Japan

She was placed in 2022 as head of the history of

Japan s collections