List of museums of Asian art

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

Name CountryCity Collection sizeNotes Ackland Art Museum United States Chapel Hill, North Carolina American Museum of Natural History United States New York, New York 60,000Division of Anthropology. American Museum of Natural History. Art Gallery of New South Wales Australia Sydney, New South Wales Art Gallery of South Australia Australia Adelaide, South Australia Art Institute of Chicago United States Chicago, Illinois 35,000Asian (The Near & Middle East objects are included) Arthur M. Sackler Museum United States Cambridge, Massachusetts 16,000Asian Asia and Pacific Museum Poland Warsaw Asian Art Museum of San Francisco United States San Francisco, California 18,000 Asian Civilisations Museum Singapore Belz Museum of Asian and Judaic Art United States Memphis, Tennessee 1,000 Birmingham Museum of Art United States Birmingham, Alabama 4,000 British Museum United Kingdom London 55,000Collections - East, South, and Central Asian. Brooklyn Museum United States Brooklyn, New York 20,000 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 Field Museum of Natural History United States Chicago, Illinois 50,000 Freer Gallery of Art / Arthur M. Sackler Gallery United States Washington, District of Columbia 40,000 Georges Labit Museum France Toulouse Honolulu Museum of Art United States Honolulu, Hawaii 40,000 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 60,000Collections - East, South, and Central Asian. Minneapolis Institute of Art United States Minneapolis, Minnesota Montreal Museum of Fine Arts Canada Montreal, Quebec Musée Cernuschi France Paris Musée d'Ennery France Paris China, Japan Musée du Quai Branly – Jacques Chirac France Paris 58,000Asia - Includes Islamic cultural materials. Musée Guimet France Paris 50,000 Edoardo Chiossone Museum of Oriental Art Italy Genoa Italy Parma Museo d'Arte Orientale Ca Pesaro Italy Venice Museum der Völker Austria Schwaz Museum Five Continents Germany Munich Museum of Asian Art Germany Berlin 20,000 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 Museum of Oriental Art (Turin) Italy Turin Museums of the Far East Belgium Brussels National Gallery of Australia Australia Canberra National Gallery of Canada Canada Ottawa, Ontario India National Museum of China China Beijing 1,050,000"National Museum gets major makeover" . China Economic Review. China National Museum of Korea South Korea Seoul 150,000"South Korea opens new national museum". Sawf News. Korea National Museum of Oriental Art Italy Rome National Palace Museum Taiwan Taipei 700,000 China Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art United States Kansas City, Missouri 10,450 Palace Museum China Beijing 1,800,000 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 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 China Tikotin Museum of Japanese Art Israel Haifa Tokyo National Museum Japan Tokyo 120,000This 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. Japan Victoria & Albert Museum United Kingdom London 130,000About the Asian collections - East and South Asian holdings. Vancouver Art Gallery Canada Vancouver, British Columbia

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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See also List of collections of Japanese art List of museums