LibGuides: AHVC 263/EAST 263/ENVS 263: Spatial Imagination in East Asia: Museums & Websites

Museums & Galleries

The Art of Asia - Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Features objects from the Institute's collection.
Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology
From the University of Oxford, it has an extensive Eastern art collection.
Asian Art from Metropolitan Museum of Art
This is an excellent source for all things art history.
e-Kokuho
Images of national treasures and important cultural properties owned by four national museums of the National Institutes for Cultural Heritage.
Freer/Sackler Museum
This is the Smithsonian's museum of Asian arts.
Morikami Museum and Japanese Garden
houses 5,000 Japanese art objects and artifacts, many available to view online
The Museum of Oriental Ceramics, Osaka
This museum specializes in research and exhibition on this history of Asian ceramics.
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
National Palace Museum
in Taiwan, it has an extensive collection of Chinese artifacts and artworks
Pacific Asia Museum at USC
advances intercultural understanding through the arts of Asia and the Pacific Islands
The Palace Museum in Beijing
housed in the Forbidden City in China; the website offers images and virtual exhibitions
Asian Art
open-access journal for the study and exhibition of the arts of Asia

Asian Art Archive Collection
Find links to books, articles, images and more. Includes contemporary Asian artists.
Asian Art from Princeton University's Collection
objects from their museum's permanent collection
Asian Historical Architecture
survey of Asia's historical architecture heritage, with background information and visual tours
Contemporary Chinese Art from Artsy Education
Images and artist biographies.
Digital Public Library of America (DPLA)
Offers a single point of access to millions of items from libraries, archives, and museums around the United States.
The East Asian Image Collection
Images from all areas of the Japanese empire.
East Asian Image Collections
These Lafayette College collections focus on Japan but include China, Korea, and Indonesia.
International Dunhuang Project: The Silk Road Online
IDP makes information and images of all manuscripts, paintings, textiles and artefacts from Dunhuang and archaeological sites of the Eastern Silk Road.
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.
Scrolling Paintings Project
An interactive site to simulate the experience of viewing handscrolls.