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Scope of the Collection
The Metropolitan Museum of Art devotes some 64,500 square feet of gallery space to the presentation of Asian Art, including paintings, calligraphy, prints, sculptures, metalwork, ceramics, lacquers, works of decorative art, and textiles from East Asia, the Indian subcontinent, the Himalayan kingdoms, and Southeast Asia.

The galleries in the Asian Wing are arranged geographically and chronologically. As distinct as the cultures of Asia are from one another, many pieces in the collection reveal similarities in form and iconography occasioned by the sharing of religions, such as Buddhism and Hinduism, or themes and techniques, such as those found in blue-and-white ceramics or ink painting. Thus, an exploration of the works on view yields both an appreciation of the art of Asia's many diverse cultures and an understanding of the ties between these traditions.

Certain gallery installations, such as those of Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Indian, and Tibetan paintings, rotate every six months, and displays of more fragile textiles, lacquers, and woodblock prints change approximately every four months. These rotations enable the Department to create focused installations and thematic exhibitions that highlight different aspects of the permanent collection.

Explore selected artworks from each of our six cultural areas below.

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Arts of China
The Met collection of Chinese painting and calligraphy ranks among the finest outside China, with masterpieces dating from the eighth to the twenty-first centuries. Another great strength is the collection of Chinese Buddhist sculpture from the fifth through the nineteenth century. The collections of antiquities and works of art range from the third millennium B.C. to the present, including jades, bronzes, lacquer, textiles, ceramics, and works in other media. An often visited area of the Museum is the Astor Court, modeled after a courtyard in a seventeenth-century domestic residence in Suzhou, a city famous for its gardens. Opening onto the courtyard is a room displaying hardwood furniture of the same period.

Arts of Japan
The full range of Japanese art—from Neolithic ceramics (ca. 1500–300 B.C.) to Meiji period (1868–1912) paintings, woodblock prints, and textiles to contemporary ceramics and works of art—is presented chronologically in eleven rooms. Traditional details, such as an altar platform (based on a twelfth-century example) for the display of Buddhist sculptures and a small shoin-style reception room typical of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, are at the heart of the Arts of Japan galleries. Highlights include thirteenth- and fourteenth-century narrative paintings (handscrolls) known as emaki, a collection of folding screens dating from the fifteenth through the nineteenth century, and Edo-period lacquer and porcelains for domestic use and export.


Arts of Korea
Ceramics and metalwork of the Silla kingdom (57 B.C.–A.D. 935) and paintings, sculptures, ceramics, and lacquers of the Goryeo (918–1392) and Joseon (1392–1910) dynasties, together with thematic exhibitions featuring loans from collections in the United States and abroad, provide a comprehensive overview of Korea's artistic and cultural heritage.

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Arts of the Indian Subcontinent
The Met presents one of the most comprehensive installations of the temple arts of South Asia outside Asia, encompassing the Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain traditions, and spanning more than 2000 years of devotional art. Included are the arts of India, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka. Major strengths include the Gandharan art of the northwest (first to fourth century), Gupta North India (third to sixth century), the greater Kashmir region (sixth to tenth century), Pala-era eastern India (eighth to thirteenth century), and Chola South India (ninth to thirteenth century). The Buddhist art of Sri Lanka in rock crystal, bronze, and ivory (third to nineteenth century) is of exceptional quality. Miniature paintings, from twelfth-century illustrated Buddhist manuscripts to later court paintings of north India, Rajasthan, and the Pahari regions of the Punjab hills (sixteenth to early nineteenth century), are another strength, along with textiles and selected applied arts. Chromolithographic devotional prints bring the collection into the twentieth century.

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Arts of Southeast Asia
This area of the collection represents the artistic legacy of Myanmar (Burma), Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam, and Indonesia. Featured are a pan-regional collection of proto-historic Dongson and related culture bronzes, early Hindu and Buddhist stone and bronze sculptures (seventh to eighth century), and a major group of Javanese bronze and gold pieces and related ritual objects (ninth to fifteenth century). Also on view are works from the Mon culture of Thailand and a gallery devoted to Angkorian Cambodia and Cham Vietnam (ninth to thirteenth century), including monumental stone and metal sculptures. Myanmar and later Thai and Vietnamese arts are represented by Buddhist sculptures and exceptionally high-quality glazed ceramics.

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