Asian Art Museum

Asian Art Museum is the usual name for a number of museums, including:

  • The Asian Art Museum of San Francisco
  • The Asiatic Museum in Saint Petersburg
  • The Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, located on the National Mall in Washington DC

Famous quotes containing the words asian, art and/or museum:

    “Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad.”
    —Denis Diderot (1713–1784)

    “For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity or perception to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: rapture.”
    —Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

    “A Museum of fetishes would give special attention to the history of underwear.”
    —Mason Cooley (b. 1927)