The Guimet Museum (full name in French: Musée national des arts asiatiques-Guimet; MNAAG; abbr.

[2] Devoted to travel, Guimet was in 1876 commissioned by the minister of public instruction to study the religions of the Far East, and the museum contains many of the fruits of this expedition, including a fine collection of Chinese and Japanese porcelain and objects relating not merely to the religions of the East, but also to those of ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome.

[citation needed] Some of the museum's artifacts, originating from Cambodia, are connected with the studies conducted by the first scholars to be interested in Khmer culture, Louis Delaporte and Etienne Aymonier.

[citation needed] In early 2024, the Parliament of the Central Tibetan Administration was joined by a group of Asian scholars published on 03 September by Le Monde,[3] and by the French Senate's Tibet Support Group[4] in strongly criticizing the museum for removing the word "Tibet" from its catalogues and exhibitions.

By 25 September, Musee du Quai Branly had formally apologized to a delegation of six Tibetan activist groups.