STORY: Guimet Museum is gateway to China for Europeans: French museum curator
SHOOTING TIME: April 18, 2024
DATELINE: May 4, 2024
LENGTH: 0:01:06
LOCATION: Paris
CATEGORY: CULTURE

SHOTLIST:
1. various of Guimet National Museum of Asian Arts
2. SOUNDBITE (French): YANNICK LINTZ, President, Guimet National Museum of Asian Arts

STORYLINE:

Paris-based Guimet National Museum of Asian Arts is known for its collection of Chinese artifacts.

The president of the museum shared her views on the museum's role in advancing cultural exchanges between China and Europe.

SOUNDBITE (French): YANNICK LINTZ, President, Guimet National Museum of Asian Arts
"We have a rich Chinese collection, and of the 60,000 or so works in the museum as a whole, 20,000 are Chinese objects.
So for us, what's important is that visitors coming to the Guimet Museum understand what Chinese art was like during its major periods.
And I say to myself, as a museum of civilizations, our museum has a duty to show that history, the real history, is the 'Silk Road,' in other words, a history of exchanges between East and West. 
I think that historically, and in the future too, the museum is what I often call the gateway to China for Europeans.
It's a place for dialogue."

Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Paris.
(XHTV)