Museum · Civic Center
Asian Art Museum
200 Larkin Street, San Francisco 94102
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The Asian Art Museum sits in the Civic Center in the former main library building and holds one of the largest collections of Asian art outside Asia. Its galleries span thousands of years and cover China, Japan, Korea, South and Southeast Asia, the Himalayas and the Middle East. Alongside the permanent displays it rotates focused shows of contemporary and traditional work.
Permanent exhibitions
- Art from Contemporary Cambodia: mixed-media work on memory, history and environmental crisis
- Japanese bamboo art gallery, among the largest holdings in the world
- Buddhist and Hindu sculpture from South and Southeast Asia
- Chinese ceramics, jade and painting across several dynasties
- Korean and Japanese art from ancient to modern periods
