Chinese Art
See Also: Ethnic and Regional
Museums and Exhibitions
National Art Museum of China
Over 60,000 fine art works from traditional Chinese painting to caricatures, pottery, toys, and more.
Freer and Sackler Galleries
One of the finest museum collections of Chinese art outside of China, with over 10,000 objects dating from Neolithic times to the present.
The Palace Museum
Collections spanning 5,000 years of traditional Chinese art, with a special focus on architecture and artifacts from the Ming and Qing imperial courts, includes a series of virtual exhibitions online.
Henan Museum
Museum of history and art in China, includes highlights from several exhibitions online.
The British Museum: Ancient China
An online exhibit that includes timelines and information and images about crafts and artisans, geography, writing, tombs and ancestors.
Chinese Ceramics
An online exhibit from the Pacific Asia Museum, explores the history and technology of Chinese ceramics.
Rank and Style: Power Dressing in Imperial China
An online exhibit from the Pacific Asia Museum that explores embroidered rank badges, robes and accessories of China's elite, includes over 90 images plus printable material.
Dragon Robes
An online exhibit featuring Qing Dynasty Dragon Robes from the permanent collection of the San Diego Museum of Art.
Taoism and the Arts of China
An online presentation from The Art Institute of Chicago, view works of art, diagrams, maps of China, and a timeline, also includes lesson plans and recommended reading.
Chinese Paper Gods
View around 231 images of prints used in folk religious practices in early twentieth-century China, a presentation by Columbia University Libraries Digital Program.
China: Dawn of a Golden Age, 200–750 AD
An online resource from The Metropolitan Museum of Art that explores works of art from 46 institutions in the People's Republic of China.
From Heaven and Earth: Chinese Jade in Context
Introductions and background information with image selections from the original exhibition at the Columbus Museum of Art including ritual objects, animal pendants, personal items, and more plus related paintings and objects in bronze and clay.
