Museums with Asian Art Collections Online
Collection-size categorization in this section refers only to a museum's ONLINE collection of digitized images

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Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College: Asian Art Collection
Six selected works from the AMAM's Asian art collection: two Qing dynasty handscrolls (one landscape and one calligraphy); a pair of Qing imperial vases; an Edo/Meiji period document box; an Edo period woodblock print; and a hanging scroll from Republican Period China. All six works have in-depth descriptions.

Go to Museum Resource: http://www.oberlin.edu/amam/AsianArt.htm
The Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology: Eastern Art Collection
Explore selections covering a range of time periods and media from the Ashmolean's "Eastern Art" collection. Images include description and context.

Go to Museum Resource: https://www.ashmolean.org/eastern-art
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College: Asia and Near East Collections
Highlighting 19 objects from the Hood Museum's collections of Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Near Eastern, and South Asian art.

Go to Museum Resource: http://hoodmuseum.dartmouth.edu/collections/overview/asia/
Jewels in Her Crown: Treasures of Columbia University Libraries Special Collections
25 selections from the University's East Asian collection. Objects include a Shang dynasty oracle bone, a collection of Nestorian crosses from Yuan dynasty China, and several rare manuscripts from Japan and Korea. All images enlarge and have descriptions.

Go to Museum Resource: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/eresources/exhibitions/treasures/html/long_topi...
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: Collection
The Nelson-Atkins has a large collection of Chinese, Japanese, and South & Southeast Asian art. Currently 25 works from these collections are featured online. All images have descriptions and a high-resolution zoom feature.

Go to Museum Resource: https://art.nelson-atkins.org/collections
Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida: Asian Collection
Seven selected works from the Harn Museum's Asian art collection: three sculptures (India, 13th C; Pakistan, 4-5th C.; Nepal, 13th C), two decorative art objects (a Ming dynasty vase and a Tang dynasty bronze mirror), and two paintings from the mid-20th century (China, India). All objects have short descriptions.

Go to Museum Resource: http://www.harn.ufl.edu/collections/asian
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts: East and South Asian Art Collections
Highlighting more than 80 objects from the Virginia Museum's collection of East and South Asian art (look under "Collections" to get to the South Asian art). Objects do not have descriptive text other than label information, but the images are excellent and enlarge to show a great amount of detail for each object.

Go to Museum Resource: https://www.vmfa.museum/collections/east-asian-art/
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