<span class="mw-page-title-main">Museum of Asian Art</span>

Museum of Asian Art

<p>The <b>Museum of Asian Art</b> (<a href="/en/German_language" title="German language" class="wl">German</a><span>: </span><i lang="de">Museum für Asiatische Kunst</i>) is a part of the <a href="/en/Humboldt_Forum" title="Humboldt Forum" class="wl">Humboldt Forum</a> in <a href="/en/Berlin" title="Berlin" class="wl">Berlin</a> since 2020. Before its relocation it was sited in the neighborhood of the borough of <span><i lang="de"><a href="/en/Steglitz-Zehlendorf" title="Steglitz-Zehlendorf" class="wl">Steglitz-Zehlendorf</a></i></span>, <a href="/en/Berlin" title="Berlin" class="wl">Berlin</a>, <a href="/en/Germany" title="Germany" class="wl">Germany</a>. It is one of the <a href="/en/Berlin_State_Museums" title="Berlin State Museums" class="wl">Berlin State Museums</a> institutions and is funded by the <a href="/en/Prussian_Cultural_Heritage_Foundation" title="Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation" class="wl">Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation</a>. It houses some 20,000 Asian artifacts, making it one of the largest museums of ancient <a href="/en/Asian_art" title="Asian art" class="mw-redirect wl">Asian art</a> in the world.<span class="mw-ref reference" id="cite_ref-SMB_1-0"><a href="#cite_note-SMB-1" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 1;"><span class="mw-reflink-text">[1]</span></a></span> The museum is located in the same building as the <a href="/en/Ethnological_Museum_of_Berlin" title="Ethnological Museum of Berlin" class="wl">Ethnological Museum of Berlin</a>. The museum houses important collections of Art houses of South, Southeast and Central Asian countries and art from the Indo-Asian cultural area, from the 4th millennium BC to the present. Its geographic reach covers regions in <a href="/en/India" title="India" class="wl">India</a>, <a href="/en/Pakistan" title="Pakistan" class="wl">Pakistan</a>, <a href="/en/Afghanistan" title="Afghanistan" class="wl">Afghanistan</a>, <a href="/en/Sri_Lanka" title="Sri Lanka" class="wl">Sri Lanka</a>, <a href="/en/Bangladesh" title="Bangladesh" class="wl">Bangladesh</a>, <a href="/en/Nepal" title="Nepal" class="wl">Nepal</a>, the <a href="/en/Autonomous_Region_of_Tibet" title="Autonomous Region of Tibet" class="mw-redirect wl">Autonomous Region of Tibet</a> and <a href="/en/Xinjiang" title="Xinjiang" class="wl">Xinjiang</a> of the <a href="/en/People's_Republic_of_China" title="People's Republic of China" class="mw-redirect wl">People's Republic of China</a>, the Southeast Asian countries of <a href="/en/Myanmar" title="Myanmar" class="wl">Myanmar</a>, <a href="/en/Thailand" title="Thailand" class="wl">Thailand</a>, <a href="/en/Cambodia" title="Cambodia" class="wl">Cambodia</a>, <a href="/en/Vietnam" title="Vietnam" class="wl">Vietnam</a>, and also the <a href="/en/Indonesia" title="Indonesia" class="wl">Indonesian Islands</a> or archipelago.<span class="mw-ref reference" id="cite_ref-Art_2-0"><a href="#cite_note-Art-2" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 2;"><span class="mw-reflink-text">[2]</span></a></span></p>

<div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none" about="#mwt1">Museum in Berlin, Germany</div>
<style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1033289096" typeof="mw:Extension/templatestyles mw:Transclusion">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}</style>
<style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1066479718" typeof="mw:Extension/templatestyles mw:Transclusion">.mw-parser-output .infobox-subbox{padding:0;border:none;margin:-3px;width:auto;min-width:100%;font-size:100%;clear:none;float:none;background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .infobox-3cols-child{margin:auto}.mw-parser-output .infobox .navbar{font-size:100%}body.skin-minerva .mw-parser-output .infobox-header,body.skin-minerva .mw-parser-output .infobox-subheader,body.skin-minerva .mw-parser-output .infobox-above,body.skin-minerva .mw-parser-output .infobox-title,body.skin-minerva .mw-parser-output .infobox-image,body.skin-minerva .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data,body.skin-minerva .mw-parser-output .infobox-below{text-align:center}</style><div class='mobile-collapse'><header class="mobile-collapse-header mobile-collapse-btn"><b>Quick facts: Established, Location, Coordinates, Type, Web...</b> <span class='arrow'>▼</span></header> <table class="infobox vcard mobile-collapse-element"><caption class="infobox-title fn org">Museum of Asian Art</caption><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span><a href="/en/File:Humboldt_Forum-9147.jpg" class="mw-file-description image media-thumb" data-hash="File:Humboldt_Forum-9147.jpg"><img loading="lazy" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/30/Humboldt_Forum-9147.jpg/275px-Humboldt_Forum-9147.jpg" decoding="async" data-file-width="4720" data-file-height="3219" data-file-type="bitmap" height="188" width="275" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/30/Humboldt_Forum-9147.jpg/413px-Humboldt_Forum-9147.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/30/Humboldt_Forum-9147.jpg/550px-Humboldt_Forum-9147.jpg 2x" alt="Humboldt_Forum-9147.jpg"></a></span><div class="infobox-caption">Exterior of the museum</div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r997900035" typeof="mw:Extension/templatestyles">.mw-parser-output .locmap .od{position:absolute}.mw-parser-output .locmap .id{position:absolute;line-height:0}.mw-parser-output .locmap .l0{font-size:0;position:absolute}.mw-parser-output .locmap .pv{line-height:110%;position:absolute;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .locmap .pl{line-height:110%;position:absolute;top:-0.75em;text-align:right}.mw-parser-output .locmap .pr{line-height:110%;position:absolute;top:-0.75em;text-align:left}.mw-parser-output .locmap .pv>div{display:inline;padding:1px}.mw-parser-output .locmap .pl>div{display:inline;padding:1px;float:right}.mw-parser-output .locmap .pr>div{display:inline;padding:1px;float:left}</style><div class="center"><div class="locmap" style="width:250px;float:none;clear:both;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto"><div style="width:250px;padding:0"><div style="position:relative;width:250px"><span class="notpageimage"><a href="/en/File:Berlin_location_map.svg" class="mw-file-description image media-thumb" title="Museum of Asian Art is located in Berlin" data-hash="File:Berlin_location_map.svg"><img loading="lazy"alt="Museum of Asian Art is located in Berlin" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c0/Berlin_location_map.svg/250px-Berlin_location_map.svg.png" decoding="async" data-file-width="1400" data-file-height="1151" data-file-type="drawing" height="206" width="250" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c0/Berlin_location_map.svg/375px-Berlin_location_map.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c0/Berlin_location_map.svg/500px-Berlin_location_map.svg.png 2x"></a></span><div class="od" style="top:46.765%;left:47.017%"><div class="id" style="left:-4px;top:-4px"><span class="notpageimage"><span><img loading="lazy"alt="Museum of Asian Art" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Red_pog.svg/8px-Red_pog.svg.png" decoding="async" data-file-width="64" data-file-height="64" data-file-type="drawing" height="8" width="8" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Red_pog.svg/12px-Red_pog.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Red_pog.svg/16px-Red_pog.svg.png 2x"></span></span></div></div></div><div style="padding-top:0.2em">Location of the Museum of Asian Art</div></div></div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Established</th><td class="infobox-data">In 2006<span style="display:none"><span>&nbsp;</span>(<span class="bday dtstart published updated">2006</span>)</span> after merging with original <a href="/en/Museum_of_East_Asian_Art" title="Museum of East Asian Art" class="mw-redirect wl">Museum of East Asian Art</a></td></tr><tr class="adr"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Location</th><td class="infobox-data locality"><a href="/en/Berlin_City_Palace" title="Berlin City Palace" class="mw-redirect wl">Berlin City Palace</a>, <a href="/en/Mitte" title="Mitte" class="wl">Mitte</a>, <a href="/en/Berlin" title="Berlin" class="wl">Berlin</a>, <a href="/en/Germany" title="Germany" class="wl">Germany</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/en/Geographic_coordinate_system" title="Geographic coordinate system" class="wl">Coordinates</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1073938472" typeof="mw:Extension/templatestyles">.mw-parser-output .geo-default,.mw-parser-output .geo-dms,.mw-parser-output .geo-dec{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .geo-nondefault,.mw-parser-output .geo-multi-punct{display:none}.mw-parser-output .longitude,.mw-parser-output .latitude{white-space:nowrap}</style><span class="plainlinks nourlexpansion"><a rel="mw:ExtLink" href="//geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Museum_of_Asian_Art&amp;params=52_31_03_N_13_24_10_E_region:DE-BE_type:landmark" class="external text" target="_blank"><span class="geo-default"><span class="geo-dms"><span class="latitude">52°31′03″N</span> <span class="longitude">13°24′10″E</span></span></span></a></span><span style="font-size: small;"></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Type</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/en/Ethnological" title="Ethnological" class="mw-redirect wl">Ethnological</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Website</th><td class="infobox-data"><a rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow" href="https://www.smb.museum/en/museums-institutions/museum-fuer-asiatische-kunst/home.html" class="external text" target="_blank">Museum of Asian Art</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <footer class='mobile-collapse-footer mobile-collapse-btn'><b>Close</b> <span class='arrow'>▲</span></footer></div>


The Museum of Asian Art is a part of the Humboldt Forum in Berlin since 2020. Before its relocation it was sited in the neighborhood of the borough of Steglitz-Zehlendorf, Berlin, Germany. It is one of the Berlin State Museums institutions and is funded by the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation. It houses some 20,000 Asian artifacts, making it one of the largest museums of ancient Asian art in the world. 