Asian Art Museum

Asian Art Museum is the usual name for a number of museums, including:

  • The Asian Art Museum of San Francisco
  • The Asiatic Museum in Saint Petersburg
  • The Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, located on the National Mall in Washington DC

Famous quotes containing the words asian, art and/or museum:

    “Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad.”
    —Denis Diderot (1713–1784)

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    —Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930)

    “No one to slap his head.”
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