One day, I bought a mummy... Emile Guimet and Ancient Egypt.
Hazan| N° d'inventaire | 16036 |
| Format | 25 x 28 |
| Détails | 288 p., 385 illustrations, paperback. |
| Publication | Paris, 2012 |
| Etat | Nine |
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This exhibition and the accompanying book evoke the relationship that Émile Guimet (1836-1918), an industrialist from Lyon, maintained throughout his life with ancient Egypt, from the birth of his vocation as a collector to the creation of museums in his hometown and in Paris. In 1865, upon returning from a trip to Egypt, Émile Guimet began an impressive collection of Egyptian antiquities. Little by little, he focused his collections on the religions and philosophies of the peoples of Antiquity and the Far East. This atypical collector intended to share his passion and, in 1879, created a museum in Lyon; but disappointed by the attendance and anxious to get closer to the scientific community, he transferred his collections to Paris after donating them to the State. The Guimet Museum in Paris, built at his own expense, opened to the public in 1889. In 1913, at the request of the city of Lyon, Émile Guimet reopened a museum in Lyon. A large part of the works are loans from the Egyptian rooms of the Egyptian Antiquities Department of the Louvre Museum, depository of the Egyptological collections of the Guimet Museum in Paris, since 1948. The scenography is based on the evocation from archival photographs which restore the atmosphere of the museums of Lyon and Paris. The work, reflecting the exhibition, studies in turn the family environment, the travels in Egypt (1865/1866 and 1894/1895), the collector, the director of the museums of oriental religions, the vocation of disseminating knowledge, the creator of magazines and annals and the other passions of this curious universal infatuated with passion for Asia then Africa, Oceania and America.
This exhibition and the accompanying book evoke the relationship that Émile Guimet (1836-1918), an industrialist from Lyon, maintained throughout his life with ancient Egypt, from the birth of his vocation as a collector to the creation of museums in his hometown and in Paris. In 1865, upon returning from a trip to Egypt, Émile Guimet began an impressive collection of Egyptian antiquities. Little by little, he focused his collections on the religions and philosophies of the peoples of Antiquity and the Far East. This atypical collector intended to share his passion and, in 1879, created a museum in Lyon; but disappointed by the attendance and anxious to get closer to the scientific community, he transferred his collections to Paris after donating them to the State. The Guimet Museum in Paris, built at his own expense, opened to the public in 1889. In 1913, at the request of the city of Lyon, Émile Guimet reopened a museum in Lyon. A large part of the works are loans from the Egyptian rooms of the Egyptian Antiquities Department of the Louvre Museum, depository of the Egyptological collections of the Guimet Museum in Paris, since 1948. The scenography is based on the evocation from archival photographs which restore the atmosphere of the museums of Lyon and Paris. The work, reflecting the exhibition, studies in turn the family environment, the travels in Egypt (1865/1866 and 1894/1895), the collector, the director of the museums of oriental religions, the vocation of disseminating knowledge, the creator of magazines and annals and the other passions of this curious universal infatuated with passion for Asia then Africa, Oceania and America.