List of museums of Asian art

Last updated December 07, 2024

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.

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List of museums of Asian art

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