About this project

Presentation

HikarIA is a three-year research project (October 2023-October 2026) at the intersection of art history and artificial intelligence.

Led by the Musée national des arts asiatiques - Guimet in partnership with Teklia, and partly financed by Caisse des Dépôts as part of the “France 2030” investment plan, this project has three objectives:

• Preserve the Musée Guimet's Dubois collection of early photographs of Japan;
• Develop new tools for art history research by optimizing the automated indexing of old photographs using artificial intelligence;
• Enrich current knowledge of photography in Japan during the Bakumatsu and Meiji periods (1853-1912).

Photo credits

All the photographs presented on this site come from the collections of the Musée Guimet in Paris.

The photography used on the site's home page is also part of the collection of the Musée Guimet in Paris.