Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, Stockholm

Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities

The Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities (Östasiatiska Museet), Stockholm, Sweden. It is a public museum launched by Sweden's Parliament in 1926, with the Swedish archaeologist Johan Gunnar Andersson (1874–1960) as founding director. The museum was originally based mainly on Andersson's groundbreaking discoveries in China, during the 1920s, of a hitherto unknown East Asian prehistory. The museum today has wide-ranging collections and exhibits of Asian archeology, classical arts, and culture, and a large Asia research library open to the public. The last time the museum published a comprehensive catalog was 1963 (Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities: Album). The museum also publishes an annual journal focused on research on ancient East Asia, the Bulletin of the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities.

The museum is located on Skeppsholmen in the building Tyghuset.

Gallery

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  Jain Tirthankara Sculpture, Red sandstone, India, 8th century
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  Ganesha, India, Chola dynasty, 12th century AD
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  Monkey gives honey to Buddha Shakyamuni, India, Pala dynasty, c. 1000 AD
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  Amitabha Buddha, China, Northern Wei dynasty, c. 520 AD
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  Armor, Japan, 19th century
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  Standing Buddha, Korea, Unified Silla dynasty, 8th century AD
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  Avalokitesvara from Rig Sum Gonpo, collected by Sven Hedin in 1930, Efi Khalkha temple, Mangolia

See also

• Johan Gunnar Andersson
• Bernhard Karlgren (the museum's second director)

External links

• English website listing exhibitions