A Stone Buddhist Statue, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Collections Overseas

	Number of Objects, Including Asian Art	Year Collections Started	Major areas
Art Institute of Chicago	3,500	1922	ceramics, bronzes, jades, sculptures
Harvard Art Museum, Boston	6,466	1919	ceramics,  jades, paintings, calligraphic works, printed materials, ancient ritual bronzes, Buddhist sculptures, rhinoceros-horn carvings, lacquers, textiles
Museum of Fine Arts (MFA), Boston	8,000 objects	1878	Paintings, sculpture, textiles, ceramics, metalwork, and decorative arts
Metropolitan Museum of Art (MET), New York	35,000	late 19th century	largest and most comprehensive collection of Asian art in the West, including paintings, prints, calligraphy, sculptures, metalwork, ceramics, lacquerware, works of decorative art, and textiles
The University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (Penn Museum), Philadelphia	25,000	early 20th century	Chinese Buddhist sculptures collected in the early part of the 20th century
Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Washington D.C.	more than 10,000		jade objects, ancient metal work, early Buddhist sculptures, gilt bronze, lacquer, wood, ceramics, paintings and calligraphic works
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City	more than 7,500	opening in 1933	Chinese paintings, Chinese temple gallery
The Asian Art Museum of San Francisco	more than 17,000		porcelain, ritual bronzes, Buddhist art, paintings, bronzes, calligraphic works, textiles and lacquerware

(Sources: websites of these museums)