Asian art museums in the United States Asian art museums in the United States The Arthur M. Sackler Gallery is an underground gallery of Asian art located on the National Mall (in Washington, D.C.), directly behind the Smithsonian Castle. The Sackler is one of two galleries of the National Museum of Asian Art, the other being the Freer Gallery. It connects to both the Freer and the National Museum of African Art. ...more on Wikipedia about "Arthur M. Sackler Gallery"
The Asian Art Museum of San Francisco is located in San Francisco, California, United States. It has one of the most comprehensive collections of Asian art in the world. ...more on Wikipedia about "Asian Art Museum of San Francisco"
The Freer Gallery of Art is the Smithsonian Institution's museum of east Asian art, including art from China, Korea, Japan, and southeast Asia. It is located on the south side of The National Mall in Washington, D.C. ...more on Wikipedia about "Freer Gallery of Art"
The Jacques Marchais Museum of Tibetan Art is located on Lighthouse Hill in Staten Island New York. The Museum is housed in two fieldstone buildings designed to resemble a Himalayan monastery. The museum was built between 1945 and 1947 with the patronage of Jacqueline Klauber (maiden name: Edna Koblentz), wife of Harry Klauber. She was an actress and Asian art dealer known professionally by the name Jacques Marchais. Although she never visited Tibet, she became fascinated with Tibetan art and culture in the 1930s and spent the rest of her life collecting Tibetan art and artifacts which finally led to the founding and building of the museum in the 1940s. ...more on Wikipedia about "Jacques Marchais Museum of Tibetan Art"
The Japanese American National Museum, located in the Little Tokyo area near downtown Los Angeles, California, is devoted to preserving the history and culture of Japanese-Americans. The museum is home to a moving image archive, which contains over 100,000 feet of 16mm and 8mm home movies of Japanese-Americans from the 1920s to the 1950s. The musuem also contains artifacts, textiles, art, photographs, and oral histories of Japanese Americans. ...more on Wikipedia about "Japanese American National Museum"
The Pacific Asia Museum is located in Pasadena, California. ...more on Wikipedia about "Pacific Asia Museum"
The S. Dillon Ripley Center, better known simply as the Ripley Center, is one of the buildings of the Smithsonian Institution series of museums located in the National Mall in Washington, D.C. The above-ground portion is only a small pagoda, and it descends into a larger underground portion. The Ripley Center houses the International Gallery, The Smithsonian Associates and the Smithsonian Traveling Exhibition Service. It contains a conference center and meeting rooms as well. It connects underground to the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery and the Freer Gallery of Art. ...more on Wikipedia about "S. Dillon Ripley Center" Are you ready for www.shortopedia.com?
The Seattle Asian Art Museum is a museum of Asian art located inside Volunteer Park on Seattle, Washington USA's Capitol Hill. Part of the Seattle Art Museum, SAAM occupies the 1933 Art Deco building which was originally home to the Seattle Art Museum's main collection. In 1991 the main collection moved to a newly-constructed Seattle Art Museum building in downtown Seattle, at which time the Seattle Asian Art Museum was created. Admission is free on the first Thursday and the first Saturday of every month. ...more on Wikipedia about "Seattle Asian Art Museum"
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