This Museum in Biarritz is known by several names – the Museum "Asiatiques", Museum of the peoples of Asia or the Museum of Oriental art. In any case, we are talking about one of the five largest museums in Europe dedicated to the art and culture of the multifaceted East.

The area of the Museum is about 800 square meters, and its collection includes over a thousand units of storage. All these works of art were created in China, India, Nepal or Tibet. Age of the oldest exhibits is more than five thousand years and belong to the Neolithic period and culture liangzhu.

In the section on Tibet, presented bronzes – for example, images of gods, portraits of the lamas and artifacts from the monastery Drepung, which is the largest Buddhist monastery. Drepung, founded in the beginning of the XV century, is located in the Tibet Autonomous region of China, and earlier was among three state of the monasteries of Tibet and was the residence of the Dalai lamas. For one of the Tibetan monasteries was brought from Beijing, the statue of the Buddhist goddess Tara, made in the fifteenth century. The sculpture was cast in bronze and covered with a layer of gold. The earthly life of Gautama Shakyamuni or Buddha is depicted on the thangka – paintings on cloth, which the Tibetans carried with him.

The Indian room you can see jewelry made of precious metals and stones, miniatures, and sculpture of the medieval period, depicting Hindu gods – Shiva, Vishnu, Parvati.

Nepalese part of the collection of the Museum introduces visitors to the articles of bronze and wood, decorated with carving, also of a religious nature.