The MFA’s Asian art appeal covers the yeasty achievement of more than half the world’s population since 4000 BC. The collection of more than 100,000 objects includes paintings, prints, sculpture, ceramics, metalwork, and else art forms from Japan, China, Korea, South and south-eastern Asia, and the monotheism world. The MFA houses the finest collection of nipponese art outside Japan.
Guimet Museum of Asian Art, France - Asia-Europe Museum Network
The Guimet depository of Asian Art (Musée domestic des arts asiatiques Guimet), in Paris, was the brain-child of fictitious character Guimet (1836-1918), a Lyons industrialist who devised the impressive project of opening a museum devoted to the religions of Ancient Egypt, Classical Antiquity, and Asia. Guimet visited united arab republic and Greece before traveling around the world in 1876, stopping off in Japan, porcelain and India. In the education of his travels he acquired extensive collections of objects which he put on expose in a museum open in Lyon in 1879.
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The Belz Museum open in 1998 and was earlier three small rooms; over the years, the depository has swollen and now encompasses 24,000 square-feet of collection location and over 1,400 objects. Originally the close collection of local entrepreneur, squat A. Belz, and his wife, Marilyn, most pieces on demonstration were given by them to the relation that runs the museum.