Collection

Our collection currently contains more than 100,000 works of art and design dating from ancient times to today. Of these objects, 1,668 of them are on view in the museum now. 84,487 of them are available online. There are 1,543 recent acquisitions. All of our collection records are living documents. They are frequently revised and enhanced.

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Joanne Tatham

Now This Has Reached the Limit Conditions of Its Own Rhetoric

Jacob Hoefnagel

Riddle: my skin is red and white liquid is hidden within (Aenigma: Rubra mihi cutis est, latet intus niveus humor)

Shigekatsu

Nakamura Utaemon III as Matsuomaru Arashi Raishi II as Umeomaru and Onoe Kikugoro III as Sakuramaruin the scene "Pulling the carriage apart' (Kuruma biki) from the play Sugawara's secrets of calligraphy (Sugawara denju tenarai kagami), Edo (Japanese period)

Hu Zhengyan

Models of Letter Paper of the Ten Bamboo Studio (Shizhuzhai jianpu)