The Museum's collections include art and architecture from all parts of Asia—East, South, Southeast, West, and Central—and highlight the region’s diversity and richness. Spanning from 2500 B.C. to the present day, highlights of the Asian collections include paintings and sculptures from China, Japan, India, and Tibet; furniture and decorative arts, including major collections of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean ceramics; a large and distinguished group of Persian and Turkish carpets; and rare and authentic architectural assemblages such as a Japanese teahouse, a Chinese palace hall, and a sixteenth-century Indian temple hall.

	Highlights from the Collections
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Rare architectural settings—a majestic seventeenth-century Reception Hall from the palace of Duke Zhao, a Japanese teahouse by famed architect Ōgi Rodō, and an eighteenth-century scholar’s study from Beijing—add immeasurably to the interpretave and evocative value of the Chinese and Japanese collections.

Radiating from a sixteenth-century Indian Pillared Hall, the Indian and Himalayan collections include a highly significant collection of sculpture from the Medieval Hindu temples of northern and southern India, earlier Indian Buddhist images of the Gupta and Kushana periods, along with metal ritual objects and sculptures from the Tibet and Nepal. Special collection exhibitions regularly display examples of the important collections of vibrant "miniature" paintings from India and elaborate Tibetan and Nepalese hanging paintings.

Because of sensitivity to light and other conservation concerns, many of the objects on view in these galleries rotate periodically.