List Of Museums Of Asian Art - Asain Art Museum

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

1. Palace Museum^*, Beijing, China

   1,800,000 objects

2. National Museum of China*up>, Beijing, China

   1,050,000 objects

3. National Palace Museum^*, Taipei, Taiwan

   700,000 objects

4. National Museum of Korea, Seoul, South Korea

   150,000 objects

5. Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK

   130,000 objects

6. Shanghai Museum^*, China

   120,000 objects

7. National Museum, Japan

   120,000 objects

8. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA

   ~100,000 objects

9. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA

   60,000 objects

10. American Museum of Natural History, New York, USA

    60,000 objects

11. British Museum, London, UK

    55,000+ objects

12. Musée du quai Branly, Paris, France.

    58,000 objects

13. Musée Guimet, Paris, France

    ~50,000 objects

14. Field Museum, Chicago, USA

    ~50,000 objects

15. Honolulu Museum of Art, Honolulu, USA

    ~40,000 objects

16. Art Institute of Chicago, USA

    35,000 objects

17. Freer Gallery of Art / Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Washington, D.C., USA

    26,500 objects

18. Museum für Asiatische Kunst, Berlin, Germany

    20,000 objects

19. Brooklyn Museum, New York, USA

    ~20,000 objects

20. Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, USA

    18,000 objects

21. Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, MA, USA

    16,000 objects

22. Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, USA

    10,450 objects

^* These museums specialise in only Chinese items; the collections are not comprehensive for all Asia.

Several famous and distinguished collections, including the Cleveland Museum of Art, Field Museum (Chicago), Royal Ontario Museum, Museum of Archaeology at the University of Pennsylvania, Los Angeles County Museum, Minneapolis Institute of Art, and the Seattle Asian Art Museum do not provide adequate numerical information for their significant collections. This list, therefore, is only provisional.

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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10 Asian Art Galleries and Museums in NYC | Asian Fusion Magazine. Source : www.asianfusion-mag.com