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Art Museum Attractions In Asia

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Asia is Earth's largest and most populous continent, located primarily in the Eastern and Northern Hemispheres. It shares the continental landmass of Eurasia with the continent of Europe and the continental landmass of Afro-Eurasia with both Europe and Africa. Asia covers an area of 44,579,000 square kilometres , about 30% of Earth's total land area and 8.7% of the Earth's total surface area. The continent, which has long been home to the majority of the human population, was the site of many of the first civilizations. Asia is notable for not only its overall large size and population, but also dense and large settlements, as well as vast barely popul...
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Art Museum Attractions In Asia

  • 1. National Museum of Kazakhstan Astana
    The National Museum of the Republic of Kazakhstan , is located in Astana. The museum opened on July 2, 2014 in a 74,000 square meter building.
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  • 2. Umaid Bhawan Palace Museum Jodhpur
    Umaid Bhawan Palace, located in Jodhpur in Rajasthan, India, is one of the world's largest private residences. A part of the palace is managed by Taj Hotels. Named after Maharaja Umaid Singh, grandfather of the present owner Gaj Singh. The palace has 347 rooms and is the principal residence of the former Jodhpur royal family. A part of the palace is a museum. Ground for the foundations of the building was broken on 18 November 1929 by Maharaja Umaid Singh and the construction work was completed in 1943. The Palace was built to provide employment to thousands of people during the time of famine.Recently, Umaid Bhawan Palace was awarded as the World's best hotel at the Traveller's Choice Award, which was organised by TripAdvisor.
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  • 5. 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art Kanazawa
    The 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa is a museum of contemporary art located in Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan. The museum was designed by Japanese architects Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa of the architectural office SANAA in 2004. In October 2005, one year after its opening the Museum marked 1,570,000 visitors.
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  • 7. Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts Gushan
    The Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts is located in Gushan District, Kaohsiung, Taiwan. It was founded by the Kaohsiung City Government and has been administrated by the Kaohsiung Bureau of Cultural Affairs since 2003. It occupies about 8.15 acres and started in 1994. It is the third public arts museum in Taiwan, after the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts and the Taipei Fine Arts Museum.The museum is a part of the Neiweipi Cultural Park , which occupies about 40 hectares. The first stage of Neiweipi Cultural Park’s construction started in 1989 and was completed in 1994. During this phase, the Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts was completed. Later further developments were made to the entrance plaza, sculpture park, and ecology park.
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  • 8. Nukus Museum of Art Nukus
    Nukus Museum of Art or, in full, The State Art Museum of the Republic of Karakalpakstan, named after I.V. Savitsky is an art museum based in Nukus, Uzbekistan. Opened in 1966, the museum houses a collection of over 82,000 items, ranging from antiquities from Khorezm to Karakalpak folk art, Uzbek fine art and, uniquely, the second largest collection of Russian avant-garde in the world . The museum represents the life’s work of Igor Savitsky, whose legacy, which includes thousands of artistic and cultural treasures on permanent exhibition, make this building one of the most interesting repositories of ancient and modern art.
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  • 11. Chihiro Art Museum - Tokyo Nerima
    Chihiro Iwasaki was a Japanese artist and illustrator best known for her water-colored illustrations of flowers and children, the theme of which was peace and happiness for children.
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  • 12. Japan Folk Crafts Museum (Mingeikan) Meguro
    The Japan Folk Crafts Museum is a museum in Komaba, Meguro, Tokyo, Japan, dedicated to the hand-crafted art of ordinary people . The museum was established in 1936 by Yanagi Sōetsu, the founder of the mingei movement; Hamada Shōji succeeded him as its director. Yanagi and Hamada decided upon its foundation after their 1929 visit to the Nordiska Museet in Stockholm.The museum is housed in a replica of a farmhouse building common to parts of Tochigi Prefecture.
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  • 13. Nerima Art Museum Nerima
    Nerima is a special ward in Tokyo, Japan. The ward refers to itself as Nerima City. As of 1 May 2016, the ward has an estimated population of 721,858, with 323,296 households and a population density of 15,013 persons per km². 15,326 foreign residents are registered in the ward. 21.6% of the ward's population is over the age of 65. The total area is 48.08 km².
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  • 14. Ohara Museum of Art Kurashiki
    The Ohara Museum of Art in Kurashiki was the first collection of Western art to be permanently exhibited in Japan. The museum opened in 1930 and originally consisted almost entirely of French paintings and sculptures of the 19th and 20th centuries. The collection has now expanded to include paintings of the Italian Renaissance and of the Dutch and Flemish 17th century. Well-known American and Italian artists of the 20th century are also included in the collection. The basis of the collection was formed by Ōhara Magosaburō on the advice of the Japanese painter Kojima Torajirō and the French artist Edmond Aman-Jean . In 1961 a wing was added for acquired Japanese paintings of the first half of the 20th century: Fujishima Takeji, Aoki Shigeru, Kishida Ryūsei, Koide Tarushige and others. I...
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  • 15. Sagawa Art Museum Moriyama
    Sagawa Art Museum opened in Moriyama, Shiga Prefecture, Japan on 22 March 1998. The museum stages temporary exhibitions and houses a permanent collection which includes a bronze bell dating to 858 that has been designated a National Treasure.
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