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 | 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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