Museum of Asian Art
Exterior of the museum | |
| Established | In 2006 after merging with original Museum of East Asian Art |
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| Location | Berlin City Palace, Mitte, Berlin, Germany |
| Coordinates | 52°31′03″N 13°24′10″E / 52.51750°N 13.40278°E |
| Type | Ethnological |
| Website | Museum of Asian Art |
The Museum of Asian Art (German: Museum für Asiatische Kunst) has been a part of the Humboldt Forum in Berlin since 2020. Before its relocation, the museum was sited in the neighborhood of the borough of Steglitz-Zehlendorf, Berlin, Germany. It is one of the Berlin State Museums and funded by the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation.
The museum houses about 20,000 Asian artifacts, making it one of the largest museums of ancient Asian art in the world. The museum is located in the same building as the Ethnological Museum of Berlin. Its geographic reach covers regions in India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Nepal, the Autonomous Region of Tibet and Xinjiang of the People's Republic of China, the Southeast Asian countries of Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, and also the Indonesian Islands or archipelago.