List of museums of Asian art

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

NameCountryCityCollection sizeNotes
Ackland Art Museum United StatesChapel Hill, North Carolina
American Museum of Natural History United StatesNew York, New York60,000 [1]
Art Gallery of New South Wales AustraliaSydney, New South Wales [2]
Art Gallery of South Australia AustraliaAdelaide, South Australia [3]
Art Institute of Chicago United StatesChicago, Illinois35,000 [4]
Arthur M. Sackler Museum United StatesCambridge, Massachusetts16,000 [5]
Asia and Pacific Museum PolandWarsaw
Asian Art Museum of San Francisco United StatesSan Francisco, California18,000 [6]
Asian Civilisations Museum Singapore
Belz Museum of Asian and Judaic Art United StatesMemphis, Tennessee1,000 [7]
Birmingham Museum of Art United StatesBirmingham, Alabama4,000 [8]
British Museum United KingdomLondon55,000 [9]
Brooklyn Museum United StatesBrooklyn, New York20,000 [10]
Chinese Museum (Fontainebleau) FranceFontainebleau
Cleveland Museum of Art United StatesCleveland, OhioChina, Japan, Korea
Crow Museum of Asian Art United StatesDallas, Texas4,000 [11]
Field Museum of Natural History United StatesChicago, Illinois50,000 [12]
Freer Gallery of Art / Arthur M. Sackler Gallery United StatesWashington, District of Columbia40,000 [13]
Georges Labit Museum FranceToulouse
Honolulu Museum of Art United StatesHonolulu, Hawaii40,000 [14]
Jacques Marchais Museum of Tibetan Art United StatesNew York, New York
Linden Museum GermanyStuttgart
Los Angeles County Museum of Art United StatesLos Angeles, California
Metropolitan Museum of Art United StatesNew York, New York60,000 [15]
Minneapolis Institute of Art United StatesMinneapolis, Minnesota
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts CanadaMontreal, Quebec [16]
Musée Cernuschi FranceParis
Musée d'Ennery FranceParisChina, Japan
Musée du Quai Branly – Jacques Chirac FranceParis58,000 [17]
Musée Guimet FranceParis50,000 [18]
Edoardo Chiossone Museum of Oriental Art ItalyGenoa
Museo d'arte cinese ed etnografico  [ it ]ItalyParma
Museo d'Arte Orientale Ca Pesaro ItalyVenice
Museum der Völker AustriaSchwaz
Museum Five Continents GermanyMunich
Museum für Asiatische Kunst GermanyBerlin20,000 [19]
Museum of Asian Art GermanyBerlin
Museum of East Asian Art (Cologne) GermanyCologne
Museum of Ethnology, Vienna AustriaVienna
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston United StatesBoston, Massachusetts100,000 [20]
Museum of Oriental Art (Turin) ItalyTurin
Museums of the Far East BelgiumBrussels
National Gallery of Australia AustraliaCanberra [21]
National Gallery of Canada CanadaOttawa, OntarioIndia [22]
National Museum of China ChinaBeijing1,050,000 [23] China
National Museum of Korea South KoreaSeoul150,000 [24] Korea
National Museum of Oriental Art ItalyRome
National Palace Museum TaiwanTaipei700,000 [25] China
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art United StatesKansas City, Missouri10,450 [26]
Palace Museum ChinaBeijing1,800,000 [27] China
Peabody Essex Museum United StatesSalem, Massachusetts
Penn Museum United StatesPhiladelphia, PennsylvaniaChina, Japan
Royal Ontario Museum CanadaToronto, OntarioChina, Japan, Korea [28]
Rubin Museum of Art United StatesNew York, New YorkHimalayas
Seattle Asian Art Museum United StatesSeattle, Washington
Shanghai Museum ChinaShanghai120,000 [29] China
Tikotin Museum of Japanese Art IsraelHaifa
Tokyo National Museum JapanTokyo120,000 [30] Japan
Victoria & Albert Museum United KingdomLondon130,000 [31]
Vancouver Art Gallery CanadaVancouver, 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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  2. ↑ "Asian art | Art Gallery of NSW".
  3. ↑ "About the Collection".
  4. ↑ Asian (The Near & Middle East objects are included)
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  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
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  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
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  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.
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