The Guimet Museum is taking part in the 2026 Night of Museums this Saturday, May 23. It’s a chance to step into this museum dedicated to Asian arts and to discover the program crafted for the occasion.
The Nuit des Musées 2026 is a chance for the museums and the monuments to shine a light on their collections and present their riches from a fresh angle. And for visitors, it’s a chance to have fun and explore these magical venues without spending a penny! A real deal worth enjoying this year on Saturday, May 23, 2026.
For this new edition, we're off to visit the Musée Guimet. It houses one of the world's richest collections of Asian art. Magnificently renovated, the museum takes visitors on an initiatory journey to Asia, to discover its thousand-year-old collections from India to Japan, via China and South-East Asia, not forgetting the textile and photographic collections, as well as contemporary art.
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Founded by Émile Guimet in 1889, the Musée National des Arts Asiatiques Guimet presents 5,000 years of Asian art history in 5,500 m² of permanent galleries. The museum is housed in three sites: the main building on Place Iéna, the Hôtel d'Heidelbach and the Musée d'Ennery.
Night of Museums 2026: the program at the Guimet Museum in Paris
- The Guimet Museum celebrates the Lantern Festival
The Korean company Baru invites visitors to a sensorial immersion into the country’s founding beliefs, straddling shamanism and Buddhism, to honor the eternal Birth and Awakening of the Buddha. Performed in the Khmer Courtyard of the museum, the pieces fuse memory, spirituality, and humanity, aiming to mirror the world’s suffering in art and ease it with a warm, collective energy. Monk Subeom will chant the associated sutras, bringing to life the famous monks’ dance. He will be joined by two performers from the shamanic tradition, Pak Kee-ryang and Hong Hyo-jin, along with musician Jeong Yeon-rak. Jeong Yeon-rak is also the creator of exquisite traditional Korean paper lamps that will envelop the performance in a poetic, mysterious atmosphere.
7:00 PM, 8:00 PM and 9:00 PM
6, Place d’Iéna - Khmer Courtyard
Free
Duration: 3 performances of 20 minutes each
- The Shaman with Ten Thousand Spirits: a look at the fascinating world of Korean shamanism
Conversation with Hervé Péjaudier
Drawing on the life story of Kim Keum-hwa, Share Happiness, Dissolve Resentment, Hervé Péjaudier highlights the vitality of contemporary Korean shamanism. He traces the extraordinary journey of this major figure (1931–2019), who rose from fortune-teller to renowned mudang for spectacular rituals. Recognized as a Living National Treasure in 1984, Kim Keum-hwa played a key role in preserving and transmitting Korean shamanic traditions, bringing them to the West while remaining deeply rooted in her local practice and community. During the event, the exceptional documentary by anthropologist Alexandre Guillemoz on a private ritual of the shaman Puchae in Seoul in the 1980s will be shown.
Author of a thesis on KIM Keum-hwa, Hervé Péjaudier is co-translator with Han Yumi, a professor at Shinhan University, of the life story of the famed Shaman with Ten Thousand Spirits. A book signing for Partager le bonheur, dénouer la rancœur, the life story Manshin, the Shaman with Ten Thousand Spirits by KIM Keum-hwa (translated by Han Yumi and Hervé Péjaudier, Imago Editions, 2015) and The Shaman with the Fan, life story of a Korean mudang by Alexandre Guillemoz (Imago Editions, 2010) will follow the talk.
9:30 PM
Auditorium Jean-François Jarrige
Free with reservation at guimet.fr
- Guided discovery of the Guimet House and its garden
Grandeur and refinement of the Heidelbach Hotel
Located in the Heidelbach Hotel, the Guimet House opens its doors for a unique immersion into the opulence and refinement of Asian arts. Built in 1913 and affiliated with the Guimet Museum since 1991, this exceptional site houses a prestigious collection of state furnishings, as well as outstanding ensembles dedicated to the art of living in China and Japan. These objects showcase master craftsmanship, with sumptuous Chinese furniture and striking lacquer screens revealing meticulous décor and a world rich in literary and symbolic references.
Continue the visit with the art of Japanese tea: precious utensils and the simple, refined architecture of the tea pavilion, completed in 2001 by master artisans from Japan.
- This Night of Museums will also be an opportunity to rediscover a remarkable venue just steps from the museum: newly renamed “Maison Guimet,” the Heidelbach Hotel has just undergone renovations and invites you on a journey through its splendid collections of Chinese ceremonial furniture and a thematic tour of tea culture across Asia.
The entire museum (permanent collections, the K-Beauty exhibitions: The Beauty of Korea, the history of a phenomenon, and Silla: Gold and Sacred, and the Han Rooftop) will also be open to the public free of charge until midnight (last entry at 11:30 PM).
Le programme est mis à jour en fonction des annonces officielles.
The Musée des arts asiatiques - Guimet, an exotic spot in Paris
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