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Nov 20, 2009
North American Museums with Significant Chinese and Japanese Art Collections
Regional antique stores and estate sales are often full of Asian antiques, especially later Chinese and Japanese decorative arts made for export in the later 19th and early 20th century but their quality varies considerably. The best way to learn to identify quality is to see fine pieces in person. This list contains names of many, but not all, North American museums that collect and regularly display Asian arts. The largest and most comprehensive are marked with an astirisk (*)
*Art Institute of Chicago
*Asia Society, NY (Rockefeller collection & special loan exhibitions)
*AsianArt Museum of San Francisco
BirminghamMuseum of Art, Birmingham, AL
BrooklynMuseum of Art
China Institute Gallery, NY (traveling exhibitions only, no permanent collection)
CincinnatiMuseum of Art
*ClarkCenter for Japanese Art and Culture, Hanford, CA
*ClevelandMuseum of Art
*DenverArt Museum
*HonoluluAcademy of Arts
*Japan Society Gallery, NY (traveling exhibitions only, no permanent collection)
HerbertF.JohnsonArt Museum, CornellUniversity
*Los AngelesCountyMuseum of Art
*Minneapolis Institute of Arts
*Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
MorikamiMuseum & JapaneseGardens, Delray Beach, FL
*Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
*Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City
New OrleansMuseum of Art
*PacificAsiaMuseum, Pasadena, CA
*PhiladelphiaMuseum of Art
PhoenixArt Museum
PortlandArt Museum, Portland, OR
RoyalOntarioMuseum, Toronto
*ArthurM.SacklerMuseum for Asian Art, HarvardUniversity, Cambridge, MA
Saint LouisArt Museum
Santa BarbaraMuseum of Art
*SeattleAsianArt Museum
*Smithsonian Institution Freer and Sackler Galleries, Washington, D.C.
Trammel & Margaret Crow Collection of Asian Art, Dallas