Evelise Bruneau

Evelise Bruneau is a French art historian who succeeded Pierre Baptiste as curator for the Southeast Asian collection at Musée Guimet in July 2025. Baptiste, general-curator of cultural heritage, had been in charge of that collection since 1996. 

With a diploma from Ecole du Louvre (2001) and a MA in archaeology at Panthéon-Sorbonne Universityr (2010), Evelise Bruneau studied Khmer and Thai languages at INALCO, was an associate member of Ecole francaise d’Extreme-Orient (EFEO) in 2016 and an Assistant to EFEO General-Director from 2016 to 2025, while joining the French Institut national du Patrimoine in 2023 to train as a curator for cultural heritage.

She has worked in Cambodia, Thailand and Indonesia, both in the capacity of cultural advisor (to IFC in Cambodia) and on the field of preventive archaeology.