Asia Society Museum

museum, New York City, New York, United States
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1978 - present

Asia Society Museum, American museum in New York, N.Y., established in 1978 with a gift from the philanthropist John D. Rockefeller III, founder of the Asia Society (1956). The museum displays fine art and artifacts of Asian origin in order to forward the organization’s larger mission of furthering American-Asian relations. The permanent collection, based on Rockefeller’s gift, includes priceless artifacts and masterpieces that range in date from 2000 bce to the 19th century. Particularly well-represented are Chinese ceramics from the Song and Ming dynasties, Chola dynasty bronzes, and sculptures of Southeast Asia. The collection contains a number of Indo-Chinese spiritual ...(100 of 214 words)