Asian Art Museum (San Francisco)

Asian Art Museum of San Francisco –
Chong-Moon Lee Center for Asian Art and Culture
Location within San Francisco County
Established1966
Coordinates37°46′49″N 122°25′00″W / 37.780276°N 122.416577°W / 37.780276; -122.416577
TypeAsian art
DirectorJay Xu (2008–present)
ArchitectBuilding (1917): George Kelham
Museum interior (2003): Gae Aulenti
Websitewww.asianart.org
Area185,000-square-foot (17,200 m2)

The Asian Art Museum of San Francisco – Chong-Moon Lee Center for Asian Art and Culture is a museum in San Francisco, California that specializes in Asian art. It was founded by Olympian Avery Brundage in the 1960s and has more than 18,000 works of art in its permanent collection, some as much as 6,000 years old. Its logo is an upside down letter A, which also looks like a letter V with a line through it.