Museum Collections of the United States

    California
    Colorado
    Connecticut
    Florida
    Illinois
    Indiana
    Maryland
    Massachusetts
    Michigan
    Missouri
    Nebraska
    New Jersey 
    New York 
    Ohio 
    Pennsylvania 
    Virginia 
    Washington 


California

Asian Art Museum of San Francisco
Predominantly Sino-Tibetan, there over 100 paintings along with bronze sculptures and religious objects. San Francisco, California.

Fowler Museum of Cultural History
Containing several 100 Tibetan objects. University of California. Los Angeles, California.

Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts
Stanford, California.

Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Exhibiting some of the finest tangkas in North America. Los Angeles, California.

Norton Simon Museum of Art
Approximately 30 bronze sculptures and miscellaneous religious objects. Pasadena, California.

Pacific Asia Museum of Pasadena, California
A small collection of paintings, sculpture and artifacts.

Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
Over 100 Tibetan religious objects. University of California. Berkeley, California.

San Diego Museum of Art
With a small collection of 7 paintings and 8 sculptures. San Diego, California.

Santa Barbara Museum of Art
10 paintings, 10 sculptures and various ritual objects. Santa Barbara, California.


Colorado

Denver Art Museum
A collection of Tibetan & Nepalese paintings, sculptures and ritual objects. Denver, Colorado.


Connecticut

Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University
Over 230 Tibetan religious and secular objects. New Haven, Connecticut.


Florida

Museum of Asian Art
This not-for-profit, public museum opened in April 2000 in Sarasota, Florida houses a stunning collection of Asian sculpture China, Cambodia, Myammar (Burma), Nepal and Thailand.


Illinois

The Art Institute of Chicago
With a small Tibetan collection of approximately 12 tangkas and 30 sculptures. The Nepalese collection however has one of the largest holdings of sculpture in North America.

The Field Museum
With dozens of Tibetan paintings and sculptures. Several thousand objects in total. Chicago, Illinois.


Indiana

Antoinette K. Gordon Collection (Indiana University)
Over 60 paintings, sculptures and religious objects. Bloomington, Indiana.

Evansville Museum of Arts & Science
Various Tibetan religious artifacts. Evansville, Indiana.

Mathers Museum of World Cultures
Predominantly Tibetan masks, musical instruments and ritual objects. Bloomington, Indiana.


Maryland

Baltimore Museum of Art
A small collection of paintings and bronze sculptures. Baltimore, Maryland.

The Walters Art Museum
A small collection with 6 paintings and 3 miscellaneous objects. Baltimore, Maryland.

Washington County Museum of Fine Arts
Included in the permanent collection are 10 Tibetan paintings. Hagerstown, Maryland.


Massachusetts

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Approximately 154 paintings and 50 bronze sculptures. Boston, Massachusetts.

Peabody Essex Museum
With over 350 Tibetan objects and 300 Bhutanese objects. Salem, Massachusetts.

Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology
Over 385 Tibetan objects. Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Rose Art Museum
Approximately 200 Tibetan art works including paintings, sculpture and religious objects. Waltham, Massachusetts.

Smith College Museum of Art
With a small collection of paintings and sculptures. Northampton, Massachusetts.


Michigan

Detroit Institute of Arts
Paintings and artifacts. Detroit, Michigan.

University of Michigan Museum of Anthropology
Over 70 Tibetan Buddhist paintings of the Koelz Collection, acquired during the early part of the last century.

University of Michigan Museum of Art
With a small collection of 19 objects there are 7 paintings and 4 sculptures. Ann Arbor, Michigan.


Missouri

Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
Amongst the numerous Tibetan objects are 28 paintings and 27 bronze sculptures. Kansas City, Missouri.

The Saint Louis Art Museum
Containing 13 paintings and 18 sculptures. St.Louis, Missouri.


Nebraska

University of Nebraska State Museum
A small collection of Tibetan religious objects. Lincoln, Nebraska.


New Jersey

Montclair Art Museum
A small collection of paintings and ritual objects. Montclair, New Jersey.

The Newark Museum
Well over 10 thousand Himalayan artifacts including tangkas, sculptures and ritual objects. Newark, New Jersey.


New York

The American Museum of Natural History
Over 600 Tibetan Buddhist paintings with over 3,600 Himalayan artifacts in total.

Brooklyn Museum of Art
Over 30 Tibetan tangkas in the permanent collection.

Jacques Marchais Museum of Tibetan Art
The first museum in North America solely dedicated to Tibetan art.

Rubin Museum of Art
The first museum in the Western World dedicated to the art of the Himalayas and surrounding regions.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Paintings, sculptures and objects.

Parrish Art Museum
A small collection of 6 Tibetan paintings. Southampton, New York.

Tibet House, New York
Over 70 paintings in the Repatriation Collection.


Ohio

Cincinnati Art Museum
A small collection of several paintings and sculptures. Cincinnati, Ohio.

The Cleveland Museum of Art
A small collection of 8 tangkas and over 20 bronze sculptures and ritual objects. Cleveland, Ohio.

Dayton Art Institute
A small collection of paintings, sculptures and ritual objects. Dayton, Ohio.

Toledo Museum of Art
A small collection of 6 paintings and several sculptures. Toledo, Ohio.


Pennsylvania

Erie Art Museum
Including a collection of 107 Tibetan tangkas exhibited on the himalayanart.org web page.

Philadelphia Museum of Art
With approximately 40 fine Tibetan paintings, 30 Nepalese paintings and 150 sculpture. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art
Over 60 tangkas including some rare iconographic forms; exhibited on the Himalayan Art web page.

University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
With a collection of approximately 300 Tibetan objects there ar over 70 Buddhist and Bon tangkas along with other Himalayan artifacts. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.


Virginia

University of Virginia Art Museum
Charlottesville, Virginia.

Virginia Museum of Fine Art
A very fine Tibetan collection. The original holdings began with 24 paintings many of which were owned by G.Tucci. Richmond, Virginia.


Washington

The Burke Museum of Natural History & Culture
With a collection of 190 Tibetan objects including 90 paintings and numerous bronze sculptures. Seattle, Washington.

Seattle Art Museum
Containing a small collection of paintings, sculptures and miscellaneous religious objects. Seattle, Washington.

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