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

Name Country City Collection size Notes
Ackland Art Museum United States Chapel Hill, North Carolina
American Museum of Natural History United States New York, New York 60,000[1]
Art Gallery of New South Wales Australia Sydney, New South Wales [2]
Art Gallery of South Australia Australia Adelaide, South Australia [3]
Art Institute of Chicago United States Chicago, Illinois 35,000[4]
Arthur M. Sackler Museum United States Cambridge, Massachusetts 16,000[5]
Asia and Pacific Museum Poland Warsaw
Asian Art Museum of San Francisco United States San Francisco, California 18,000[6]
Asian Civilisations Museum Singapore
Belz Museum of Asian and Judaic Art United States Memphis, Tennessee 1,000[7]
Birmingham Museum of Art United States Birmingham, Alabama 4,000[8]
British Museum United Kingdom London 55,000[9]
Brooklyn Museum United States Brooklyn, New York 20,000[10]
Chinese Museum (Fontainebleau) France Fontainebleau
Cleveland Museum of Art United States Cleveland, Ohio China, Japan, Korea
Crow Museum of Asian Art United States Dallas, Texas 4,000[11]
Field Museum of Natural History United States Chicago, Illinois 50,000[12]
Freer Gallery of Art / Arthur M. Sackler Gallery United States Washington, District of Columbia 40,000[13]
Georges Labit Museum France Toulouse
Honolulu Museum of Art United States Honolulu, Hawaii 40,000[14]
Jacques Marchais Museum of Tibetan Art United States New York, New York
Linden Museum Germany Stuttgart
Los Angeles County Museum of Art United States Los Angeles, California
Metropolitan Museum of Art United States New York, New York 60,000[15]
Minneapolis Institute of Art United States Minneapolis, Minnesota
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts Canada Montreal, Quebec [16]
Musée Cernuschi France Paris
Musée d'Ennery France Paris China, Japan
Musée du Quai Branly – Jacques Chirac France Paris 58,000[17]
Musée Guimet France Paris 50,000[18]
Edoardo Chiossone Museum of Oriental Art Italy Genoa
Museo d'arte cinese ed etnografico [it] Italy Parma
Museo d'Arte Orientale Ca Pesaro Italy Venice
Museum der Völker Austria Schwaz
Museum Five Continents Germany Munich
Museum für Asiatische Kunst Germany Berlin 20,000[19]
Museum of Asian Art Germany Berlin
Museum of East Asian Art (Cologne) Germany Cologne
Museum of Ethnology, Vienna Austria Vienna
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston United States Boston, Massachusetts 100,000[20]
Museum of Oriental Art (Turin) Italy Turin
Museums of the Far East Belgium Brussels
National Gallery of Australia Australia Canberra [21]
National Gallery of Canada Canada Ottawa, Ontario India[22]
National Museum of China China Beijing 1,050,000[23] China
National Museum of Korea South Korea Seoul 150,000[24] Korea
National Museum of Oriental Art Italy Rome
National Palace Museum Taiwan Taipei 700,000[25] China
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art United States Kansas City, Missouri 10,450[26]
Palace Museum China Beijing 1,800,000[27] China
Peabody Essex Museum United States Salem, Massachusetts
Penn Museum United States Philadelphia, Pennsylvania China, Japan
Rhode Island School of Design Museum United States Providence, Rhode Island India, Japan
Royal Ontario Museum Canada Toronto, Ontario China, Japan, Korea[28]
Rubin Museum of Art United States New York, New York Himalayas
Seattle Asian Art Museum United States Seattle, Washington
Shanghai Museum China Shanghai 120,000[29] China
Tikotin Museum of Japanese Art Israel Haifa
Tokyo National Museum Japan Tokyo 120,000[30] Japan
Victoria & Albert Museum United Kingdom London 130,000[31]
Vancouver Art Gallery Canada Vancouver, 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.

References

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  1. ^ Division of Anthropology. American Museum of Natural History.
  2. ^ "Asian art | Art Gallery of NSW". Archived from the original on 2019-05-16. Retrieved 2019-05-06.
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  5. ^ Asian Archived 2008-12-23 at the Wayback Machine
  6. ^ "The Asian Art Museum's Collection". Archived from the original on 2010-09-02. Retrieved 2007-08-14.
  7. ^ http://belzmuseum.org
  8. ^ "Asian art | Birmingham Museum of Art".
  9. ^ Collections Archived 2009-09-21 at the Wayback Machine - East, South, and Central Asian.
  10. ^ Collections: Browse Collections
  11. ^ http://crowmuseum.org
  12. ^ "Collections Asia". Archived from the original on 2009-03-17. Retrieved 2009-01-03.
  13. ^ https://www.freersackler.si.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/FactSheet_FreerSackler.pdf [bare URL PDF]
  14. ^ "Honolulu Academy of Arts". Archived from the original on 2010-01-07. Retrieved 2009-08-31.
  15. ^ Collections - East, South, and Central Asian.
  16. ^ "The Arts of One World | Montreal Museum of Fine Arts".
  17. ^ Asia Archived 2007-09-26 at the Wayback Machine - Includes Islamic cultural materials.
  18. ^ The collections
  19. ^ Collection of South, Southeast and Central Asian Art in the Dahlem Museums Archived 2012-02-13 at the Wayback Machine
  20. ^ Collections. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Archived 2007-01-04 at the Wayback Machine
  21. ^ "Asian art". Archived from the original on 2019-04-06. Retrieved 2019-05-06.
  22. ^ "Asian Painting and Sculpture | National Gallery of Canada". Archived from the original on 2019-05-05. Retrieved 2019-05-05.
  23. ^ "National Museum gets major makeover" Archived 2017-08-16 at the Wayback Machine. China Economic Review.
  24. ^ "South Korea opens new national museum". Sawf News.
  25. ^ "Attractions". Archived from the original on 2012-07-11. Retrieved 2012-06-02.
  26. ^ Chinese Art Collection Archived 2007-08-30 at the Wayback Machine
  27. ^ "Rare exhibition brings Chinese masterpieces to Japan". Asahi Shimbun. Archived from the original on March 6, 2016.
  28. ^ "Gallery of Chinese Architecture".
  29. ^ "Shanghai Museum History". Archived from the original on 2010-12-02. Retrieved 2012-06-02.
  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. ^ About the Asian collections Archived 2009-03-21 at the Wayback Machine - East and South Asian holdings.
  32. ^ "Vancouver Art Gallery". Archived from the original on 2019-01-29. Retrieved 2019-05-05.

See also

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