The Cernuschi Museum

The Cernuschi Museum is located in a beautiful mansion on the edge of Parc Monceau in the 8th arrondissement of Paris. It presents the collection of Asian art built up by Henri Cernuschi at the end of the 19th century. It’s a small museum, child-sized, with extraordinary pieces that make you dream about a distant world. After the visit, the children will be delighted to enjoy the Parc Monceau located right next door.

The Cernuschi Museum: an ideal family visit

• We love this small museum for the beauty of the objects on display and also because it can be visited quite quickly. It is a museum where you are not “stunned” by the sum of the pieces on display!
• It is an ideal visit with children because the objects on display speak to their imagination : fantastic animals, diabolical-looking felines, funerary statuettes…
• The Cernuschi Museum reopened its doors on March 4, 2020 after 9 months of work. The new museum is beautiful. It is bright and airy. The collections are very well showcased and the scenography does not overwhelm visitors with an accumulation of art objects.
• Most of the pieces on display come from the collection that Henri Cernuschi brought back during his trip to the Far East (Japan, China, Vietnam and Korea) between 1871 and 1873
• The Buddha Room unveils a monumental wooden sculpture of dragons nearly twelve meters high. This masterpiece of Japanese art is on display for the first time in its entirety since the 1930s.
• The objects are magnificent, extremely well highlighted and the explanations are clear and precise
• Throughout the windows, we discover bronzes, ceramics, lacquered wood, paintings, prints and photographs

The Cernuschi Museum and the young public

• The museum organises activities for children and teenagers all year round
• These activities are centred either around temporary exhibitions or around the permanent collection and customs of the Far East
• For example, workshops are regularly organized around the tea ceremony, around the making of fans, or around the theme of dragons…
• Activities are by reservation only
• And of course, if the weather is right, you can enjoy the very pretty Parc Monceau on the edge of the museum with the children