Musée de l’Homme
Opening times: 10am–5pm Mon and Wed–Fri, 10am–6pm Sat and Sun
Closed public hols
Website:
www.mnhn.frTel: 01. 44 05 72 72
Musée de la Marine
Opening times: 10am–6pm Wed–Mon
Closed 1 Jan, 1 May, 25 Dec
Website:
www.musee-marine.frTel: 01. 53 65 69 69
Cinéaqua
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Facing the Palais de Chaillot across Place du Trocadéro is the Cimetière de Passy. Its entrance is at No. 2 rue du Commandant-Shloesing. This small cemetery is not visited by tourists much but is an interesting place to wander in as there are more famous people buried here for its size than any other cemetery in Paris – probably because this has always been such a desirable place to live. It opened in 1820 and is the last resting place of composers Debussy and Fauré as well as the painter Manet, not to mention any number of politicians and public figures.
Cimetière de Passy
Opening times: 8am–6pm Mon–Fri, 8.30am–6pm Sat, 9am–6pm Sun
Tel: 01. 47 27 51 42
Musée National des Arts
Asiatiques Guimet
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Leave Place du Trocadéro via Avenue du Président Wilson and the Musée National des Arts Asiatiques Guimet will be on your left overlooking Place d’Iéna. This imposing museum, with its signature round tower overlooking the Place, contains one of the most important collections of Asian art anywhere in the world. It also has, thanks to France’s former colonial ties to Southeast Asia, one of the finest collections of Khmer (or Cambodian) art in the West.
Originally established by industrialist Emile Guimet in Lyons in 1879, the collection moved to Paris in 1884 and represents every important artistic tradition in Asia, from India, through Southeast Asia, to China and Japan. It contains more than 45,000 works of art, including some particularly unusual
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