Weekend on China at the Guimet Museum • April 27 and 28, 2024

WE LIKE: an exceptional event to discover with the family
AGE: all audiences
DATE : the weekend of April 27-28, 2024
HOURS : 10am-9pm
WHERE : at the Guimet Museum – Place Iéna, Paris 16th
PLEASE NOTE : Some activities are paid and others free with the entrance ticket

A great festive and family weekend for the year of China in Guimet

This weekend, the Guimet Museum is celebrating the launch of a season entirely dedicated to China.

To honour the 60th anniversary of Franco-Chinese relations, it is the Chinese artist Jiang Qiong Er and his “Keepers of Time” who have the experience of taking over the facades and spaces of the museum

Meet at Place Iéna near the Trocadero to discover these divine creatures from Chinese folklore mixed with artificial intelligence that guarantee peace and fraternity

For the beginning of the “Guimet – China 2024” year, a very spectacular universe awaits us: monumental installation, circus, a choreographic journey, and ancestral Chinese music

A whole program to do with the family, for a weekend immersed in a fabulous world

The program around the inauguration “Guimet x China 2024”

Time Keepers

Saturday, April 27 – to February 2025
Rez-deJardin – Single price access to the permanent collections and temporary exhibitions
The visual artist and designer from Shanghai Jiang Qiong Er invites the museum’s public to walk through 5 spaces: sound and visual installations carrying symbolism and poetic messages.
To be discovered on the façade, the columns of the entrance rotunda and the 4th floor, the library on the 1st floor and on the green terrace.

Choreographic careers

Saturday 27 April at 2.30 pm, 3.30 pm and 4.30 pm
Duration: 25 min – Chinese Rooms – Free on presentation of the entrance ticket.
An imaginary and poetic journey between classical Chinese dance and the works of the museum’s collections with the Compagnie de danse chinoise de Paris, the 1st leading professional classical Chinese dance company in France.

The Chinese Art of Tea

Saturday 27 and Sunday 28 April 2024 at 11 am, 2 pm and 4.30 pm
Duration : 30 min – Rotunda on the 4th floor – (allow 18€ – museum ticket included).
A rare moment of sharing and pleasure following an extraordinary preparation and tasting ceremony
Emotion and sensation of this art born 1000 years ago!

Guided tours: discovery of Chinese collections

Saturday 27 April at 3pm
Duration: 1h30
Price : €9 for people with free admission / €18 entrance + visit
No reservation required within the limit of available places

Chinese Circus Family Show

Sunday, April 28 at 5:00 p.m.
At the Auditorium
A magical show, of eleven acts performed by fourteen professional artists from the Art Chine association: balance, rotating plates, juggling, martial arts, dance and visual numbers

Silk and Bamboo Ensemble – Traditional Chinese Music – Young Talents Concert

Saturday, April 27 at 8 p.m.
Price : Auditorium – 18€ full price
Stringed instruments by the silk and wood of the traditional Chinese bamboo flute.
Most of the music presented in the proposed program was composed more than 700 years ago
A journey through time and tradition

Exceptional night

Saturday 27 April until 9 pm, last access at 8.30 pm
Included in the museum entrance ticket
Stroll through the collections and discover the museum’s exhibition: Khmer Court, Historical Library, exhibition “T’ang Haywen, a Chinese painter in Paris” (Rotonde 2) and Rotunda on the^4thfloor of the museum.