Brooklyn Museum of Art: Museum Information

Founded in 1823, the Brooklyn Museum is considered one of the largest museums in America, and one of the premier art institutions in the world. Its collections touch on a wide range of cultures from around the world, including East Asia.

The museum has exceptional online databases of some 800 past exhibitions and an extraordinary database on Japanese woodblock prints focused on Hiroshige's 100 Famous Views of Edo, with guides to reading woodblock prints and background on the process of creation.  It is an exceptional educational tool for teachers and researchers alike.

For more information concerning the Japanese collections, please contact the museum at (718) 638-5000 or by email.

Collection size: as of November 2014

The Brooklyn Museum's collections include over 100,000 objects. Of these, approximately 10,000 belong to their Asian art collection. Of these, the museum estimates 8,000 objects are Japanese in origin, forming the largest area of the museum's Asian collections. China, Korea, India, Southeast Asia, and the Himalayas are also represented.

Japanese objects in the museum's collections date from the Jōmon period to the present day, with a wide array of mediums.

The museum is open to the public during their regular hours, with admission price set as a suggested donation amount. Their library catalog is also online and freely available for research purposes.

For all comments and questions about the Guide, please e-mail us:

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