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The Department of Asia in the British Museum holds one of the largest collections of historical objects from Asia. These collections comprise over 75,000 objects covering the material culture of the Asian continent (including East Asia, South and Central Asia, and Southeast Asia), and dating from the Neolithic age up to the present day.
Portal worked as Curator of Chinese and Korean Collections at the British Museum, 1987–2008, creating the Korea Foundation Gallery (the museum's first gallery of Korean art) in 2000. In 2001 and 2002, she made two visits to North Korea , following the establishment of diplomatic relations, and started collecting contemporary works from the ...
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The Royal Collection of the British royal family is the largest private art collection in the world. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Spread among 13 occupied and historic royal residences in the United Kingdom, the collection is owned by King Charles III and overseen by the Royal Collection Trust .
British Museum: United Kingdom London 55,000 [9] Brooklyn Museum: United States Brooklyn, New York 20,000 [10] Chinese Museum (Fontainebleau) France Fontainebleau Cleveland Museum of Art: United States Cleveland, Ohio China, Japan, Korea Crow Museum of Asian Art: United States Dallas, Texas 4,000 [11] Field Museum of Natural History: United States
The British Museum houses the biggest collection of Chinese relics anywhere in the West – at least 23,000 objects – ranging from paintings that date back to the Tang dynasty (618 to 907 AD) to ...
The British Museum is a public museum dedicated to human history, art and culture located in the Bloomsbury area of London. Its permanent collection of eight million works is the largest in the world. [3] It documents the story of human culture from its beginnings to the present.
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