LibGuides: AHVC 131: Asian Art & Visual Culture: Object Collections & Image Libraries

Object Collections

United States

Allen Memorial Art Museum at Oberlin
includes superb examples of painting, calligraphy, sculpture, religious and decorative art, and West Asian textiles, as well as a renowned collection of Japanese ukiyo-e woodblock prints.
Asian Art at LACMA
an extensive collection of Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Southeast Asian art
Asian Art Museum of San Francisco
one of the largest museums in the Western world devoted exclusively to Asian art
Asian Art from Princeton University's Collection
objects from their museum's permanent collection
Cleveland Museum of Art
The museum has an excellent Asian collection and you can see view most objects online.
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Asian Art Collections at the MIA.
Museum of Fine Arts Boston
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City
The Northern Illinois University Center for Burma Studies
Freer and Sackler Galleries
The Smithonian's Museums of Asia Art. In 2015, the Galleries put their entire collection online.
Pacific Asia Museum at USC
advances intercultural understanding through the arts of Asia and the Pacific Islands

India

National Gallery of Modern Art: Virtual Galleries
National Museum of India, New Delhi
American Institute of Indian Studies - Virtual Museum of Images and Sound
Resources of two image and sound archives of the AIIS – the Center for Art and Archaeology (CAA) and the Archives and Research Centre for Ethnomusicology (ARCE).

Vietnam

Indonesia

Austraila

China (PROC)

National Art Museum of China (NAMOC)
A national art museum dedicated to collection, research and exhibitions of modern and contemporary artistic works in China.
National Museum of China
China's national history and art museum
The Palace Museum in Beijing
housed in the Forbidden City in China; the website offers images and virtual exhibitions
The Shanghai Museum

Taiwan (ROC)

National Palace Museum
in Taiwan, it has an extensive collection of Chinese artifacts and artworks

Japan

Collection Catalogue of the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa
International contemporary art art, including visual art, music, the performing arts, and film.
e-Kokuho
Images of national treasures and important cultural properties owned by four national museums of the National Institutes for Cultural Heritage.
Museum of Oriental Ceramics, Osaka
specializes in research and exhibition on this history of Asian ceramics
National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
15 masterpieces from the museum collection.
Osaka City Museum of Fine Arts
Tokyo National Museum
Union Catalogue of the Collections of the National Art Museums, Japan

Europe

Asia: Voice of the Shuttle
collection of links to sites on asian art and architecture
Asian Historical Architecture
survey of Asia's historical architecture heritage, with background information and visual tours
Clark Center for Japanese Art and Culture collection
Buddhist paintings and sculptures, Edo period (1615-1868) paintings, Nanga material, and more
East Asian Image Collections
These Lafayette College collections focus on Japan but include China, Korea, and Indonesia.
A Guide to the Ukiyo-e Sites of the Internet
Links to Japanese printmakers and images of the Floating World.
Scrolling Paintings Project
An interactive site to simulate the experience of viewing handscrolls.
Tasveer Ghar: A Digital Network of South Indian Popular Culture
A trans-national website documenting various materials from South Asia including posters, art, pilgrimage maps and paraphernalia, advertisements, and other forms of street and bazaar art.
Japanese Buddhist Statuary
There are 400+ deities in this dictionary, and 4,000+ photos of statuary from Kamakura, Nara, Kyoto, and elsewhere in Japan.
Japanese Prints
From Wesleyan University, this collection includes about 600 woodcuts.

David Rumsey Map Collection
18th and 19th century North and South America maps are the main feature of this site. Historic maps of the World, Europe, Asia and Africa are also represented.
Historical Maps of Asia
Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection, University of Texas, Austin
Old Maps Online
TimeMaps