Asian Art Museum of San Francisco
Civic Center · San Francisco, California
The Asian Art Museum of San Francisco is one of the largest museums in the United States devoted exclusively to Asian art, with a collection of more than 18,000 objects spanning six millennia and dozens of cultures across China, Japan, Korea, India, Southeast Asia, and the Himalayan world. Housed in the former Main Public Library building in Civic Center — itself a Beaux-Arts landmark — the museum's galleries allow close engagement with extraordinary objects: Tang dynasty bronzes, Indian miniature paintings, Japanese lacquerware, and rotating selections from an unparalleled collection of Chinese ceramics. Public programs bridge ancient traditions and contemporary Asian and Asian American experience.
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