Cicadas as Symbols of Rebirth in Chinese Art
Learn about the cicada’s longstanding role in Chinese culture from the collections of the National Museum of Asian Art.
Exciting new free programs announced in celebration of the museum's centennial for Asian Pacific American Heritage Month
If you’re a book lover, you might enjoy exploring the Pulverer Collection of Japanese Illustrated Books, acquired in 2007 by the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery. Formed over a span of thirty years by Dr. Gerhard Pulverer and his wife Rosemarie, the collection includes over 900 titles (totaling approximately 2,200 volumes) mostly from the Edo period (1603–1868), although there are a number of twentieth-century works as well.
Learn how conservators at the National Museum of Asian Art preserved this fragile Japanese hand scroll "Miraculous Interventions of Jizo Bosatsu."