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| Chong-Moon Lee Center for Asian Art and Culture
San Francisco (USA)
200 Larkin Street - San Francisco - CA 94102
| | | | The Asian Art Museum of San Francisco has one of the most comprehensive collections of Asian art in the world. | | Asian Art Museum of San Francisco : Virtual tour |  | 20 sections and 521 items |
Asian Art Museum of San Francisco : Far East Art (20)
South Asia (India - Pakistan - Bangladesh - Sri Lanka)
Second Floor
Third Floor
China
Second Floor
Third Floor
Himalaya (Tibet - Nepal - Buthan - Mongolia)
Third Floor
Southeast Asia (Cambodia - Thailand - Indonesia - Burma - Lao - Malaysia - Philippines - Vietnam)
Third Floor
Korea
Second Floor
Japan
Second Floor
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| | Asian Art Museum of San Francisco : Hours | |
Open daily excepted monday
Tuesday-Wednesday : 10:00 a.m./5:00 p.m.
Thursday (October through January) : 10:00 a.m./5:00 p.m.
Thursday (February through September) : : 10:00 a.m./9:00 p.m.
Friday-Sunday : 10:00 a.m./5:00 p.m.,
Admissions :
Adults : $12
Seniors 65 and older with ID : $8
College students with ID: $7
Youths ages (13/17): $7
Children (12 and under) and SFUSD students with ID : Free
Asian Art Museum Members : Free
You can also enjoy free admission to the museum with the Go San Francisco Card.
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| | Asian Art Museum of San Francisco : Visit Guide | |
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- Visitors will find everything they need at the Information Desk (first floor).
- A complimentary self-guided audio tour of highlights of the museum's collection is available. Look for the headphone icon in the galleries for items described in the audio tour - which is offered in English, Cantonese, Mandarin, Spanish, and French. Transcripts are available upon request at the Information Desk.
- The museum offers free guided tours of the galleries, architectural tours of the building, and storytelling programs. All public tours assemble at the Information Desk on the ground floor. Tour schedules (listed below) are subject to change. Inquire at the Information Desk for the day's schedule.
- The museum's Coat Check (first floor) has strollers, wheelchairs, and lightweight folding stools available for loan on a first-come, first-served basis. Backpacks, umbrellas, and all parcels larger than 12x12x12 inches must be checked for safety reasons. Fragile items and valuables are not accepted. The museum is not responsible for damage, loss, or theft of personal items. The contents of all bags and parcels may be inspected for security reasons.
| | Asian Art Museum of San Francisco : Description | |
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The Asian Art Museum holds one of the most comprehensive collections of Asian art in the world. Spanning 6,000 years, its scope and breadth enables the museum to provide an introduction to all the major traditions of Asian art and culture. Well-known in the scholarly world, the collection contains rare and exceptional objects which are often referenced in journals and textbooks.
The collection includes approximately 17,000 objects ranging from tiny jades to monumental sculptures, paintings, porcelains and ceramics, lacquers, textiles, furniture, arms and armor, puppets, and basketry.
About half of the objects in the museum's collection were donated by Chicago industrialist Avery Brundage in the 1960s, serving as the impetus for the museum's founding. His contribution includes some of the museum's most celebrated objects—including a gilt bronze Buddha dated 338—the oldest known dated Chinese Buddha in the world and often cited as a textbook example of Chinese Buddhist art.
The museum's collection galleries on the second and third floors feature more than 2,500 artworks and offer a comprehensive introduction to all the major cultures of Asia. The collection galleries are divided into seven geographic regions: South Asia; the Persian World and West Asia; Southeast Asia; the Himalayas and the Tibetan Buddhist World; China; Korea; and Japan. Winding through all the galleries are three major themes: the development of Buddhism; trade and cultural exchange; and local beliefs and practices. | | Asian Art Museum of San Francisco : History | |
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Until 2003 the museum shared a space with the de Young Museum in Golden Gate Park. During its last year in the park it was closed for the purpose of moving to its new location, and it re-opened on March 20, 2003 in the former San Francisco city library building opposite the San Francisco Civic Center, renovated for the purpose under the direction of Italian architect Gae Aulenti. Lord Cultural Resources, a cultural professional practice, was also commissioned to undertake a three-part sequence of planning studies for the relocation of the Museum. The collection has approximately 17,000 works of art and artifacts from all major Asian countries and traditions, some of which are as much as 6,000 years old. Major galleries are devoted to the arts of South Asia, West Asia (including Persia), Southeast Asia, the Himalayas, China, Korea and Japan. There are 2,500 works on display in the permanent collection.
The museum owes its origin to a donation to the city of San Francisco by Chicago millionaire Avery Brundage, who was a major collector of Asian art. The Society for Asian Art, incorporated in 1958, was the group that formed specifically to gain Avery Brundage's collection. The museum opened in 1966 as a wing of the M. H. de Young Memorial Museum in Golden Gate Park. Brundage continued to make donations to the museum, including the bequest of all his remaining personal collection of Asian art on his death in 1975.
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In total, Brundage donated more than 7,700 Asian art objects to San Francisco. In 1995, Silicon Valley entrepreneur Chong-Moon Lee made a $15 million donation to launch the funding campaign for a new building for the museum.
The museum has become a focus for special and traveling exhibitions, including: the first major Chinese exhibition to travel outside China since the end of World War II (in 1975); an archaeological exhibition which attracted 800,000 visitors over an eight week period; an exhibition on Wisdom and Compassion opened by the Dalai Lama in 1991. | | Asian Art Museum of San Francisco : More pictures | |
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