Museum of Fine Arts Boston: Art of Asia Collection

About the Museum:

Opened in 1876, the Museum of Fine Arts now includes approximately 450,000 works of art, with a strong emphasis on Asian art, among others. Due to this emphasis, the MFA's Asian art collections are considered some of the finest in the Western world.

For more information about the Art of Asia collection, please contact the museum using the information listed above.

The Art of Asia Collection at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston is considered one of the finest collections of Asian museum artifacts in the Western world. It includes over 100,000 works dating from 4000 B.C. to the present day. Pieces hail from Japan, China, Korea, South and Southeast Asia, and the Islamic world.

The museum's collections offer a strong emphasis on Japanese works, which can be reviewed in further detail on the Japanese Collections page. The Chinese and Indian collections are similarly emphasized, with particularly strong collections of paintings and sculpture. The Korean collection is also known for its ceramics and Buddhist paintings.

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