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)

    “Hast thou, which art but air, a touch, a feeling
    Of their afflictions, and shall not myself,
    One of their kind, that relish all as sharply
    Passion as they, be kindlier moved than thou art?”
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    “I never can pass by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York without thinking of it not as a gallery of living portraits but as a cemetery of tax-deductible wealth.”
    —Lewis H. Lapham (b. 1935)