LibGuides: AHVC 232: Art of China: Object Collections & Image Libraries

Object Collections

United States

The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Over 400,000 collection records from the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
The Cleveland Museum of Art
an extensive collection of Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Southeast Asian art
Freer Gallery of Art
The Freer Gallery of Art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery form the Smithsonian Institution's national museums of Asian art in the United States
Museum of Fine Arts Boston
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City
Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Asian Art Collections at the MIA.
Asian Art Museum in San Francisco
Asian Art from Princeton University's Collection
objects from their museum's permanent collection
The Northern Illinois University Center for Burma Studies
Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)
Almost 700 objects from LACMA's Chinese art collection.
Pacific Asia Museum at USC

China (PROC)

Taiwan (ROC)

Japan

Europe

Austraila

Asia: Voice of the Shuttle
collection of links to sites on asian art and architecture
China: 5,000 Years
online exhibition from Ohio State University
East Asian Image Collections
These Lafayette College collections focus on Japan but include China, Korea, and Indonesia.
From Heaven & Earth: Chinese Jade in Context
online exhibition from Ohio State University
Google Arts & Culture
Harvard Digital Collections - Chinese Rubbings Collection
The Fine Arts Library and Harvard-Yenching Library holds rubbings of objects that date from the Qin Dynasty to the Ming Dynasty.
Scrolling Paintings Project
An interactive site to simulate the experience of viewing handscrolls.
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.