China, South Asia and Southeast Asia, The British MuseumChina, South Asia and Southeast Asia, The British Museum

China, South Asia and Southeast Asia, The British Museum

The Department of Asia covers the material and visual cultures of Asia, a vast geographical area embracing East, South and…

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Africa, Oceania and America, The British Museum

The British Museum houses one of the world's most comprehensive collections of Ethnographic material from Africa, Oceania and the Americas,…

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Ancient Greece, The British Museum

The Department of Greece and Rome at the British Museum has one of the most comprehensive collections of antiquities from…

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Ancient Egypt and Sudan, The British Museum

The British Museum houses the world's largest and most comprehensive collection of Egyptian antiquities (with over 100,000 pieces) outside the…

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Waddesdon Bequest, Rothschild Collection, The British Museum

Marvel at the Renaissance treasures collected by Baron Ferdinand Rothschild MP (1839–1898), displayed in a new gallery at the British…

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Muraqqa

A Muraqqa (Turkish: Murakka, Arabic: مورّقة‎, Persian: مُرَقّع‎) is an album in book form containing Islamic miniature paintings and specimens…

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Ancient worlds, Chrysler Museum of Art

The arts of the ancient world in Chrysler Museum of Art, Asia, Africa, and Pre-Columbian America (particularly Maya ceramics) are…

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Glass Art Collections, Chrysler Museum of Art

Chrysler Museum of Art houses one of the world's greatest collections of glass (including outstanding works by Louis Comfort Tiffany),…

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The art of cutting paper, China Paper Cutting Museum

Chinese paper-cuts fall into two categories roughly based on artistic styles, namely, the northern and the southern. The renowned Chinese…

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Yangzhou Paper-cuts Masterpieces, China Paper Cutting Museum

Chinese paper-cutting is an important part of Chinese folk culture. Chinese paper-cutting has three major schools, namely, Shandong folk paper-cutting,…

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