Asian Art

Durham University Oriental Museum

The Oriental Museum, formerly the Gulbenkian Museum of Oriental Art and Archaeology, is a museum of the University of Durham in England. The museum has a collection of more than 23,500 Chinese, Egyptian, Korean, Indian, Japanese and other Far East and Asian artefacts. The museum was founded due to the need to house an increasing collection of Oriental artefacts used by the School of Oriental Studies, that were previously housed around the university. The museum's Chinese, Egyptian and Japanese collections have been 'designated' by the Arts Council England) as being of "national and international importance".

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See also

• ▸Engaku-ji
• ▸Cult of Zeus
• ▸Culture of the Ming dynasty

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