List of museums of Asian art explained

This is a list of museums with major collections of Asian art.

NameCountryCityCollection sizeNotes
Ackland Art MuseumUnited StatesChapel Hill, North Carolina
American Museum of Natural HistoryUnited StatesNew York, New York60,000[1]
Art Gallery of New South WalesAustraliaSydney, New South Wales[2]
Art Gallery of South AustraliaAustraliaAdelaide, South Australia[3]
Art Institute of ChicagoUnited StatesChicago, Illinois35,000[4]
Arthur M. Sackler MuseumUnited StatesCambridge, Massachusetts16,000[5]
Asia and Pacific MuseumPolandWarsaw
Asian Art Museum of San FranciscoUnited StatesSan Francisco, California18,000[6]
Asian Civilisations MuseumSingapore
Belz Museum of Asian and Judaic ArtUnited StatesMemphis, Tennessee1,000[7]
Birmingham Museum of ArtUnited StatesBirmingham, Alabama4,000[8]
British MuseumUnited KingdomLondon55,000[9]
Brooklyn MuseumUnited StatesBrooklyn, New York20,000[10]
Chinese Museum (Fontainebleau)FranceFontainebleau
Cleveland Museum of ArtUnited StatesCleveland, OhioChina, Japan, Korea
Crow Museum of Asian ArtUnited StatesDallas, Texas4,000[11]
Field Museum of Natural HistoryUnited StatesChicago, Illinois50,000[12]
Freer Gallery of Art / Arthur M. Sackler GalleryUnited StatesWashington, District of Columbia40,000[13]
Georges Labit MuseumFranceToulouse
Honolulu Museum of ArtUnited StatesHonolulu, Hawaii40,000[14]
Jacques Marchais Museum of Tibetan ArtUnited StatesNew York, New York
Linden MuseumGermanyStuttgart
Los Angeles County Museum of ArtUnited StatesLos Angeles, California
Metropolitan Museum of ArtUnited StatesNew York, New York60,000[15]
Minneapolis Institute of ArtUnited StatesMinneapolis, Minnesota
Montreal Museum of Fine ArtsCanadaMontreal, Quebec[16]
Musée CernuschiFranceParis
Musée d'EnneryFranceParisChina, Japan
Musée du Quai Branly – Jacques ChiracFranceParis58,000[17]
Musée GuimetFranceParis50,000[18]
Edoardo Chiossone Museum of Oriental ArtItalyGenoa
ItalyParma
Museo d'Arte Orientale Ca PesaroItalyVenice
Museum der VölkerAustriaSchwaz
Museum Five ContinentsGermanyMunich
Museum für Asiatische KunstGermanyBerlin20,000[19]
Museum of Asian ArtGermanyBerlin
Museum of East Asian Art (Cologne)GermanyCologne
Museum of Ethnology, ViennaAustriaVienna
Museum of Fine Arts, BostonUnited StatesBoston, Massachusetts100,000[20]
Museum of Oriental Art (Turin)ItalyTurin
Museums of the Far EastBelgiumBrussels
AustraliaCanberra[21]
National Gallery of CanadaCanadaOttawa, OntarioIndia[22]
National Museum of ChinaChinaBeijing1,050,000[23] China
National Museum of KoreaSouth KoreaSeoul150,000[24] Korea
National Museum of Oriental ArtItalyRome
National Palace MuseumTaiwanTaipei700,000[25] China
Nelson-Atkins Museum of ArtUnited StatesKansas City, Missouri10,450[26]
Palace MuseumChinaBeijing1,800,000[27] China
Peabody Essex MuseumUnited StatesSalem, Massachusetts
Penn MuseumUnited StatesPhiladelphia, PennsylvaniaChina, Japan
Royal Ontario MuseumCanadaToronto, OntarioChina, Japan, Korea[28]
Rubin Museum of ArtUnited StatesNew York, New YorkHimalayas
Seattle Asian Art MuseumUnited StatesSeattle, Washington
Shanghai MuseumChinaShanghai120,000[29] China
Tikotin Museum of Japanese ArtIsraelHaifa
Tokyo National MuseumJapanTokyo120,000[30] Japan
Victoria & Albert MuseumUnited KingdomLondon130,000[31]
Vancouver Art GalleryCanadaVancouver, British Columbia[32]

Some collecting institutions combine their ethnographic, cultural, and artistic materials together in their total holdings. Such is the case of the British Museum, for example. It would be nearly impossible to distinguish between these types of objects (e.g. "fine arts") in developing a quantitative, as opposed to qualitative, ranking of this kind.

See also

Notes and References

  1. http://anthro.amnh.org/ Division of Anthropology
  2. Web site: Asian art | Art Gallery of NSW.
  3. Web site: About the Collection.
  4. http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/asian Asian
  5. http://www.artmuseums.harvard.edu/sackler/asian.html Asian
  6. Web site: The Asian Art Museum's Collection . 2007-08-14 . 2010-09-02 . https://web.archive.org/web/20100902072134/http://www.asianart.org/collection.htm . dead .
  7. http://belzmuseum.org
  8. Web site: Asian art | Birmingham Museum of Art.
  9. http://www.untoldlondon.org.uk/collections/SE000073.html Collections
  10. http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/collections/ Collections: Browse Collections
  11. http://crowmuseum.org
  12. Web site: Collections Asia . 2009-01-03 . 2009-03-17 . https://web.archive.org/web/20090317190408/http://www.fieldmuseum.org/research_collections/anthropology/collections_asia.htm . dead .
  13. https://www.freersackler.si.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/FactSheet_FreerSackler.pdf
  14. Web site: Honolulu Academy of Arts . 2009-08-31 . 2010-01-07 . https://web.archive.org/web/20100107152540/http://www.honoluluacademy.org/cmshaa/academy/index.aspx . dead .
  15. http://www.metmuseum.org/Works_of_Art/introduction.asp?dep=9 Collections
  16. Web site: The Arts of One World | Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.
  17. http://www.quaibranly.fr/en/collections/permanent-collections/asia/index.html Asia
  18. http://www.guimet.fr/fr/collections The collections
  19. http://www.smb.museum/smb/kalender/details.php?objID=13313&lang=en&typeId=10 Collection of South, Southeast and Central Asian Art in the Dahlem Museums
  20. http://www.mfa.org/collections/sub.asp?key=22&subkey=109 Collections. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
  21. Web site: Asian art. 2019-05-06. 2019-04-06. https://web.archive.org/web/20190406031546/https://nga.gov.au/collections/asia/. dead.
  22. Web site: Asian Painting and Sculpture | National Gallery of Canada . 2019-05-05 . 2019-05-05 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190505141020/https://www.gallery.ca/collection/collecting-areas/european-american-and-asian-art/asian-painting-and-sculpture . dead .
  23. http://www.chinaeconomicreview.com/node/51309 "National Museum gets major makeover"
  24. http://news.sawf.org/Travel/3572.aspx "South Korea opens new national museum"
  25. Web site: Attractions . 2012-06-02 . 2012-07-11 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120711222512/http://taipei.airporthotelguide.com/attractions.html . dead .
  26. http://www.nelson-atkins.org/art/Chinese.cfm Chinese Art Collection
  27. Web site: Rare exhibition brings Chinese masterpieces to Japan. Asahi Shimbun. https://web.archive.org/web/20160306205409/http://ajw.asahi.com/article/cool_japan/style/AJ201201010005. March 6, 2016.
  28. Web site: Gallery of Chinese Architecture.
  29. Web site: Shanghai Museum History . 2012-06-02 . https://web.archive.org/web/20101202063730/http://www.shanghaimuseum.net/en/index.jsp . 2010-12-02 . dead .
  30. This includes the combined holdings of the three museums that make up the National Museum, i.e. Tokyo National Museum, Kyoto National Museum, Nara National Museum.
  31. http://www.vam.ac.uk/collections/asia/about/index.html About the Asian collections
  32. Web site: Vancouver Art Gallery . 2019-05-05 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190129084219/https://www.vanartgallery.bc.ca/collection_and_research/permanent_collection.html . 2019-01-29 . dead .