Museums

Member museum profiles

Detailed profiles for 41 museums in the ASEMUS network, restored from the network's archived pages. For the complete list of all member organisations, see the members directory.

Bangladesh

Chittagong University Museum

Established in 1973 at the initiative of the Chittagong University Authority, this academic museum suppor…

Lokayan Life Diversity Museum

Northern Bangladesh's long-settled communities — farmers, potters, smiths, fishermen, lyricists and ethni…

China

Maritime Museum

Opened to the public in 1987 beside the Temple of A-Ma, the museum quickly outgrew its original two-store…

France

Guimet Museum of Asian Art

Founded by Lyon industrialist Émile Guimet (1836-1918), who set out to build a museum of Egyptian, classi…

Germany

GRASSI Museum of Applied Arts

The Grassi complex, built in Art Deco style, houses three museums: the Museum of Applied Arts, the Museum…

Greece

Corfu Museum of Asian Art

The only museum in Greece exclusively dedicated to Far Eastern and Indian art and antiquity, housed in th…

Hanoi

Vietnam Museum of Fine Arts

A national museum in a former French girls' boarding school blending French colonial architecture with tr…

India

Kaladham / PLACE-HAMPI

Hampi is a monumental World Heritage precinct and living pilgrimage site where history, environment, myth…

Indonesia

Museum Tekstil Jakarta

Founded in 1976 at the initiative of Jakarta Governor Ali Sadikin, honouring First Lady Tien Soeharto, wh…

Italy

Edoardo Chiossone Museum of Oriental Art

Houses Japanese and Chinese art gathered during the Meiji period by Edoardo Chiossone (Genoa 1833 - Tokyo…

Museum of Oriental Art

The Museum of Oriental Art in Turin (MAO), inaugurated in late 2008 under the Fondazione Torino Musei, is…

Korea

Gyeomjae Jeong seon Memorial Museum

Gyeomjae Jeong Seon (1676-1759), a major late-Joseon painter, pioneered Korean "true-view" (jingyeong) la…

National Hangeul Museum

Opened October 9, 2014 — Hangeul Day, a Korean national holiday — dedicated to the Korean alphabet, creat…

Latvia

Art Museum RIGA BOURSE

The Art Museum RIGA BOURSE is an architectural monument of national importance. It was built between 1852…

Malaysia

National Textile Museum

Housed in a Mughal-Islamic style building in Kuala Lumpur, completed in 1896 alongside the Sultan Abdul S…

Sarawak Museum Department

Founded in 1860 by Charles Brooke, the Second Rajah of Sarawak, at the urging of naturalist Alfred Russel…

Mongolia

The Fine Arts Zanabazar Museum

Founded in 1966, renamed in 1995 after G. Zanabazar (1635-1724), whose works — including statues of Sita …

Myanmar

Bagan Archaeological Museum

In 1902, Taw Sein Kho, Superintendent of the former Epigraphic Office (now the Department of Archaeology,…

National Museum

First inaugurated June 1952 at Jubilee Hall on Shwedagon Pagoda Road, the museum moved to Pansodan Road o…

Netherlands

Ceramic Museum Princessehof

The Princessehof museum is the only ceramic museum in the Netherlands, established in 1917 by founder Nan…

National Museum of Ethnology

Museum Volkenkunde in Leiden traces to King William I's 1816 Royal Cabinet of Curiosities in The Hague, f…

Other

Brunei Museum

Established in 1965, the Brunei Museum first operated from an administrative office at the Civic Centre i…

National Folk Museum of Korea

Seoul's leading institution on traditional Korean life, drawing over two million visitors annually. Found…

National Gallery Singapore

A leading visual arts institution engaging audiences with the art of Singapore, Southeast Asia and the wo…

National Museum of Indonesia

Traces to the Batavian Society for the Arts and Sciences, a private learned society founded 24 April 1778…

National Museum of Mongolia

Origins trace to 1924, when the first national museum collections began. The current building was erected…

National Museum of the Republic of Kazakhstan

Central Asia's youngest and largest museum, established under the Cultural Heritage State Programme on be…

Vietnam National Museum of History

Formed in 2011 by merging the former National Museum of Vietnamese History and the National Museum of the…

Philippines

Museo De La Salle

A lifestyle and decorative-arts museum focused on 19th-century Philippine domestic life, built to support…

Museum of Jose Rizal

Housed at Fort Santiago, the actual site where Filipino national hero José Rizal was detained before his …

Poland

Manggha Museum of Japanese Art and Technology

Founded on the shared vision of film director Andrzej Wajda and collector Feliks Jasieński, the Manggha M…

The Andrzej Wawrzyniak Asia and Pacific Museum in Warsaw

Established 1973 on the 4,000-piece collection Andrzej Wawrzyniak donated to the Polish state after nine …

Russian Federation

State Museum of Oriental Art

One of Russia's largest cultural-educational institutions, with permanent exhibitions on the art of China…

Singapore

Asian Civilisations Museum

The region's only museum devoted to the civilisations, arts and culture of Asia, spanning collections fro…

Malay Heritage Centre

Housed in the former Istana Kampong Gelam, gazetted a National Monument of Singapore in 2015, the centre …

Peranakan Museum

Explores Peranakan culture in Southeast Asia from the former Tao Nan Chinese School building (built 1912)…

Switzerland

Ethnographic Museum of Geneva (MEG)

Founded in 1901 by anthropologist Eugène Pittard, MEG preserves some 80,000 items from five continents, w…

Thailand

Jim Thompson House Museum

The former home of James H.W. Thompson, an American entrepreneur who founded the Jim Thompson Thai Silk C…

Museum Siam

A "discovery museum" for young people, families and foreign visitors, founded in 2007 by the Thai governm…

Queen Sirikit Museum of Textiles

In 2003, Queen Sirikit of Thailand asked to use a vacant building on the Grand Palace grounds for a new t…

Vietnam

Vietnamese Women's Museum

Founded in 1987 by the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam within the Viet Nam Women's Union, the museum in Ha…