Corfu Museum of Asian Art, Greece

The only museum in Greece exclusively dedicated to Far Eastern and Indian art and antiquity, housed in the Palace of Sts Michael and George — a neoclassical, Georgian-style building in Maltese limestone built in the 19th century during British rule of the Ionian Islands. It became Greek state property in 1864 and has housed the Museum of Asian Art since 1928.

The Palace has three floors: the ground floor holds temporary exhibition halls and the Ionian Senate Conference Hall; the two first-floor wings hold the permanent galleries — the Gregorios Manos wing (Chinese collection) and the N. Hadjivassiliou wing (India, surrounding regions, and Japan).

Gregorios Manos (1850-1928), a Greek ambassador to Austria, founded the museum after purchasing roughly 9,500 Chinese, Korean and Japanese artefacts at Vienna and Paris auctions in the late 19th/early 20th century. The collection grew to about 10,500 items via donations from N. Hadjivassiliou, C. Chiotakis, I. Siniossoglou, P. Almanahos and I. Kollas, expanding beyond its Sino-Japanese focus (hence the museum's renaming to "Museum of Asian Art").

Collections span China (Neolithic-19th c.: ceramics, bronzes, lacquer, painting, textiles), Japan (4th-19th c.: ceramics, bronzes, lacquer, prints, Kabuki masks, Samurai armour), Korea (19th-20th c.), Balluch carpets/textiles, India (2nd c. BC-19th c. AD sculpture and miniature painting), Afghanistan-Pakistan (Gandhara Buddhist reliefs), Nepal-Tibet (bronze religious sculpture, painted banners), and Southeast Asian sculpture.