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Asian art museums |
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Asia economic developments and the growing need for preserving traditional Asian cultures as well as showcasing the new Asian artistic trends, have recently contributed to the creation and development of numerous Asian art museums worldwide. |
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The Mori art Museum - Tokyo |
The new Mori Art Museum - a privately funded institution devoted to the public display of contemporary art, architecture and design - opened its doors to the public on 18 October 2003. |
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The Asian Art Museum of San Francisco |
The Asian Art Museum is a public institution whose mission is to lead a diverse global audience in discovering the unique material, aesthetic, and intellectual achievements of Asian art and culture.
(photography by Kaz Tsuruta - Asian Art Museum) |
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The Freer Gallery, Washington DC |
The Freer Gallery of Art was the first museum of the Smithsonian Institution to be dedicated to the fine arts. The Freer and the neighboring Arthur M. Sackler Gallery together form the national museum of Asian art for the United States.
Besides Asian art, the Freer houses a collection of 19th- and early 20th-century American art, including the world\'s largest number of works by James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903). The Freer is committed to expanding public knowledge of the collections through exhibitions, research and publications. |
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The Sackler Gallery, Washington DC |
The Arthur M. Sackler Gallery and the neighboring Freer Gallery of Art together form the national museum of Asian art for the United States.
As part of the Smithsonian Institution the galleries both are dedicated to advancing public knowledge about the arts and cultures of Asia through exhibitions, publications, research and education. |
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The Fukuoka Asian Art Museum |
Due to its geographical and historical characteristics, Fukuoka City served as a gateway to continental Asian culture since ancient times. Today it has assumed a new role as a key interactive city for Asia. Fukuoka Asian Art Museum (FAAM) opened in 1999, as a part of the City’s progressive strategy for interactions with different Asian cultures. |
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National Museum of Asian Art Guimet |
The Musée Guimet was the brain-child of Emile Guimet (1836-1918), a Lyons industrialist who devised the grand project of opening a museum devoted to the religions of Ancient Egypt, Classical Antiquity, and Asia. Guimet visited Egypt and Greece before traveling around the world in 1876, stopping off in Japan, China and India. In the course of his travels he acquired extensive collections of objects which he put on display in a museum opened in Lyon in 1879. |
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The Asian Civilizations Museum Singapore |
Tasked with the mission to connect Singaporeans to their ancestral cultures, the Asian Civilizations Museum was established in 1993 as one of the three National Museums under the National Heritage Board. It began operations in 1997 at the old Tao Nan School Building with two thirds of its galleries featuring Chinese civilization and culture. |
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Nezu Institute of Fine Arts,Tokyo |
In 1940, Kaichiro Nezu Sr. founded the Nezu Institute, which had its opening the following year. The core of the museum\'s collection consists of those Oriental art objects assembled by the founder during his lifetime. It includes works of Asian art from different periods: paintings, calligraphy, sculpture, ceramics, textiles and archaeological materials, as well as objects in lacquer, metal, wood and Buddhist art in particular are known world-wide for their rich variety and high quality. The collection\'s Chinese bronzes of the Shang and Zhou dynasties are also of international renown. |
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National Museum of Modern Art Tokyo |
The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo was opened in 1952 as the first national museum of art in Japan. It consists of the Museum and Crafts Gallery in Kitanomaru Koen, near the Imperial Palace, and the National Film Center in Kyobashi, which is next to Ginza. All their Activities are coordinated to provide a systematic overview of modern Japanese art within the context of modern art all over the world. |
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Museum of Asian Art, Ionian Island, Greece |
The Museum of Asian Art (the only one in Greece) was founded in 1927 when Gregorios Manos donated 10.500 items of his private Asian art collection. Staring from 1974, the museum that originally mainly presented works of Chinese and Japanese art, enriched its collection through other private donations with items from central Asia. |
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Asian galleries - Victoria & Albert Museum |
The Victoria & Albert Museum was established in 1852 to make works of art available to all and to inspire British designers and manufacturers. It gained its current name in 1899 when Queen Victoria laid the foundation stone of a new wing and renamed the Museum in memory of her husband, Prince Albert. |
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