The Musée Cernuschi is a Paris museum entirely dedicated to oriental art. It is located in the 8th arrondissement, not far from the Monceau Park, and is one of the oldest museums in the city of Paris. After the Musée Guimet, which is also located in Paris, it is the second museum of Oriental Art in all of France and the fifth in all of Europe. The museum was born in 1896, thanks to the collection of the Italian Enrico Cernuschi, businessman and collector, naturalized French and founder of the Banque de Paris. He donated his palace and the collection of Chinese and Japanese art objects collected during his travels to the East to the city of Paris. The museum's collection boasts more than 12,000 objects, of which only 900 are on display in the museum's nine rooms that can be visited. There are works of Chinese, Japanese, Indian, Javanese and Vietnamese culture, which cover a vast period: from the Neolithic to the 12th century AD These are ancient bronzes, terracotta, funerary statuettes, paintings on paper, sculptures, textiles, ritual vases, artifacts of jewelery, ceramics, weapons, tools. Among the works, the Amithaba Buddha, from the mid-18th century, undoubtedly stands out. Coming from Japan, it is a huge bronze statue 4.5 meters high and weighing 4000 kg. The building that houses the museum is an elegant and original two-story building with a small Japanese-style garden housing plants and flowers of Asian origin.