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	Asian Art Museum of San Francisco
		The Asian Art Museum of San Francisco is one of the largest museums in the Western world devoted exclusively to Asian Art, with a collection of over 17,000 artworks spanning 6,000 years of history.
		The museum is a public institution whose mission is to lead a diverse global audience in discovering the unique material, aesthetic, and intellectual achievements of Asian art and culture.
		The City of San Francisco, understanding the museum’s limitations in Golden Gate Park, offered the city’s former Main Library to the museum after it was clear the library was relocating to a new space, and after usage studies suggested the building would be better suited for a museum.
	www.asianart.org /history.htm (1047 words)

	Asian Art Museum of San Francisco - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Until recently housed at the de Young in Golden Gate Park, the Asian Art Museum re-opened on March 20, 2003 in the former San Francisco city library building opposite the San Francisco Civic Center, renovated for the purpose under the direction of Italian architect Gae Aulenti of Musée d'Orsay fame.
		The museum owes its origin to a donation to the city of San Francisco by Chicago millionaire Avery Brundage, who was a major collector of Asian art.
		The museum opened in 1966 as a wing of the M.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Asian_Art_Museum_of_San_Francisco (325 words)

	-www.san-francisco.us, San Francisco Asian Art-
		The museum's mission is to lead a diverse global audience in discovering the unique material, aesthetic, and intellectual achievements of Asian art and culture.
		In 1960, to meet the Brundage challenge, a $2,725,000 bond issue was passed by the voters of San Francisco to acquire the collection and to build a facility to house it.
		The City of San Francisco under Mayor Dianne Feinstein, understanding the museum's limitations in Golden Gate Park, offered the city's former Main Library to the museum after it was clear the library was relocating to a new space, and after usage studies suggested the building would be better suited for a museum.
	www.san-francisco.us /san-francisco-asian-art.htm (1210 words)

	Antiques and the Arts Online - Asian Art Museum of San Francisco Plans January 2003 Reopening
		The museum's new quarters-featuring nearly forty thousand square feet of gallery display space as well as expanded educational services, state-of-the-art storage and conservation facilities, and more-will allow the museum to better fulfill its mission of leading a diverse global audience in discovering the unique material, aesthetic, and intellectual achievements of Asian art and culture.
		"San Francisco is excited to welcome the new Asian Art Museum to the revitalized Civic Center neighborhood, the cultural, political, and social heart of this city," said San Francisco Mayor Willie L. Brown.
		The overseeing of the design of the new Asian Art Museum is a joint venture of Hellmuth, Obata and Kassabaum (HOK), LDA Architects, and Robert Wong Architect in association with Gae Aulenti, FAIA.
	antiquesandthearts.com /TT0-07-02-2002-11-14-00 (871 words)

	San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Asian Art Legion of Honor De Young CA
		The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, which opened in 1935 was the first museum on the West Coast dedicated to featuring only 20th century art.
		The Asian Art Museum of San Francisco is one of the largest museums in the Western world devoted exclusively to Asian art.
		The De Young Museum since being founded in 1895 in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park, has been an integral part of the cultural fabric of the city and a sought out destination for millions of residents and visitors alike over the past 100 years.
	www.wsisf.com /museum.html (343 words)

	The Asian Art Museum - View - San Francisco's new museum Architectural Review, The - Find Articles
		When San Francisco's Asian Art Museum reopened this spring in its new home, the collections completed an odyssey that began in 1932 when its original donor, the Chicago industrialist Avery Brundage, fell in love with Chinese art at a Burlington House exhibition in London.
		This is a moment of divide: a glass-enclosed balcony overlooking San Francisco on one side and on the other, at the gallery entrance, a stone Ganesha, the elephant-headed Hindu God of literature and pleasure.
		Another mood and the hand of another architect prevail in the galleries, that of George Sexton, the Washington DC museum installation and lighting designer known for his open-storage study centres at both the Sainsbury Centre for the Visual Arts and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m3575/is_1276_213/ai_103826389 (956 words)

	Splendors of Imperial China: Treasures from the National Palace Musuem on Asianart.com
		The works of art in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, are classified as national treasures; some have been passed down from dynasty to dynasty since the Northern Sung period (960-1127), the era when the foundation of the collection was amassed.
		The greater part of the Museum's vast collection entered the Palace during the reign of the Ch'ien-lung emperor (reigned 1736-95), and many of the objects, especially those in jade and bronze, are intimately connected with state rituals.
		Splendors of Imperial China opened to critical acclaim at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York (March l9-May 19, 1996), and went on to impressive crowds at the Art Institute of Chicago (June 29-August 25, 1996).
	www.asianart.com /splendors/index.html (1028 words)

	Golden Age for San Francisco's Asian Art Museum
		With over 13,000 art objects representing the different countries and cultures of Asia, it is the largest museum devoted to Asian art in the western world.
		Plans are well under way to transform San Francisco's historic Old Main Library in Civic Center into a new home for the Asian Art Museum, which currently occupies a dilapidated wing of the De Young Museum in Golden Gate Park.
		According to museum officials, the New Asian, which is slated to open in the fall of 2002, will have 65 percent more square footage and 30 percent more gallery space.
	www.coastnews.com /art/asian_art/asian_art.htm (911 words)

	The Asian Art Museum of San Francisco (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Asian Art Museum is a public institution whose mission is to lead a diverse global audience in discovering the unique material, aesthetic, and intellectual achievements of Asian art and culture.
		Holding nearly 15,000 Asian art treasures spanning 6,000 years of history, the Asian Art Museum is one of the largest museums in the Western world devoted exclusively to Asian art.
		An architectural gem featuring a dynamic blend of beaux arts and modern design elements, the museum’s new home is the result of a dramatic transformation of San Francisco’s former main public library building by renowned architect Gae Aulenti (designer of Paris’s Musée d’Orsay) into a showcase for the museum’s celebrated collection and exhibitions.
	www.asiannouveau.com /arts_crafts_details.php?arts_id=146&osCsid= (262 words)

	Asian Art Museum, San Francisco
		Even though the anti-war demonstrators in San Francisco saw themselves as acting under great provocation and were running high on emotion, there was never a serious worry that some of them might bolt over to the dedication ceremony to vandalize the building or disturb the gathering there.
		San Francisco’s light, whether it’s the “oyster light” of cloudy days or the pastel Mediterranean brilliance of sunny days has a special quality.
		That’s a crucial matter given that the museum divides its vast holdings among eight distinct cultural areas of Asia: India, China, Japan, Korea, West Asia (Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan), Southeast Asia (Laos, Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, Malaysia, the Philippines), the Himalayas and Tibet and contemporary Asian art.
	www.theculturedtraveler.com /Museums/Archives/Asian_Art_SF.htm (777 words)

	Asian Art Museum
		The San Francisco presentation of the exhibition is organized by the Asian Art Museum in association with the Sikh Foundation.
		The Arts of the Sikh Kingdoms is the first exhibition to explore artistic patronage at the later Sikh courts, where architecture and painting flourished, and textiles of high quality continued to be produced.
		For the San Francisco Bay Area, home to a large Indian population - a significant percentage of whom are Sikhs - the exhibition is an opportunity to examine the rich artistic heritage of the Punjab.
	www.artmag.com /museums/a_usa/aussfaa/asian1.html (1107 words)

	Japanese Mochi Pounding Party At Asian Art Museum \| Huliq: Breaking News
		San Francisco's Kagami Kai was founded nearly twenty years ago when Tetsu Takatani first came to the United States.
		Holding nearly 16,000 Asian art treasures spanning 6,000 years of history, the museum is one of the largest museums in the Western world devoted exclusively to Asian art.
		An architectural gem featuring a dynamic blend of beaux arts and modern design elements, the museum's new home is the result of a dramatic transformation of San Francisco's former main library by acclaimed architect Gae Aulenti (designer of the MusÃ©e d'Orsay, Paris) into a showcase for the museum's renowned collection and exhibitions.
	www.huliq.com /4258/japanese-mochi-pounding-party-at-asian-art-museum (678 words)

	Market Wire Business News: Asian Art Museum of San Francisco Blades Video Surveillance System - MSN Money
		The Asian Art Museum is home to the largest collection of Asian Art in the United States, valued at $4 billion dollars.
		Holding more than 16,000 Asian art treasures spanning 6,000 years of history, the museum is one of the largest museums in the Western world devoted exclusively to Asian art.
		An architectural gem featuring a dynamic blend of beaux arts and modern design elements, the museum's new home is the result of a dramatic transformation of San Francisco's former main library building by renowned architect Gae Aulenti (designer of Paris's Musee d'Orsay) into a showcase for the museum's acclaimed collection and exhibitions.
	news.moneycentral.msn.com /provider/providerarticle.aspx?Feed=MW&Date=20070216&ID=6493327 (925 words)

	SWT Tours: Senior Women's Travel: San Francisco and Art and Wine in the Napa Valley
		San Francisco and Art and Wine in the Napa Valley
		Part of San Francisco’s appeal is its fascinating history — the gold rush, railroads, Asian immigration, earthquakes and fire.
		San Francisco still has hundreds of beautiful Victorian homes and their history is yet another fascinating story.
	www.poshnosh.com /swt/sanfrancisco-napa.html (699 words)

	Asian Art Museum in San Francisco
		Asian Art Museum can be found at 200 Larkin St. in San Francisco.
		As one of the city's Museum/ Attraction venues, it can be compared to other venues such as Kabuki Springs Spa, Embarcadero, Cannery, among others.
		Attractions such as Cannery, Presidio, Angel Island, are all in the same area as Asian Art Museum.
	san.francisco.hotelprofessor.com /travel-guide/asian-art-museum.html (87 words)

	Asian Art Museum director to give talk: 4/99
		Emily Sano, director of the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco, will give a free public lecture on "The New Asian Art Museum in San Francisco's Civic Center" at 7 p.m.
		The Asian Art museum on San Francisco, one of the largest museums in the western world devoted exclusively to Asian art, opened in 1966 as a result of a gift to the City of San Francisco by Avery Brundage.
		The lecture is the fifth in a year-long series entitled "Museums on the Move: The Bay Area Faces the Millennium," sponsored by the Department of Art and Art History.
	www.stanford.edu /dept/news/report/news/1999/april7/museum-47.html (181 words)

	Asian Art Museum
		The museum became known as the Center for Asian Art and Culture and was renamed the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco in 1972.
		The Asian Art Museum is the first one in the United States devoted exclusively to arts of Asia.
		In addition, the Asian Art Museum Foundation, the Society for Asian Art, the Museum society, The museum Society Auxiliary, the Connoisseurs Council, and other devoted individuals have substantially augmented Brundage's benefactions with fine objects of quality and rarity in furtherance of the objectives of the Museum's major donor.
	www.iias.nl /iiasn/iiasn5/asiacul/sanfran.html (771 words)

	RS1 English
		The Museum opened in 1966 as a gift to the City of San Francisco by industrialist Avery Brundage of Olympic fame and its vast collection of 15,000 objects spanning almost six millennia are exclusively devoted to Asian art.
		The museum was initially located at the city's Golden Gate Park for 35 years and reopened at its new expanded facility at San Francisco's Civic Center on March 20, 2003.
		The focus on Asian art is attributed to Mr Brundage's visit to London after the 1936 Olympics in Berlin when the young industrialist was exposed to the visual arts from the Orient.
	www.rsi.sg /english/southasianspotlight/view/20060512222221/1/.html (936 words)

	A home of its own / Asian Art Museum opens its doors this week
		The AAMSF also adds a new name to its old one -- the Chong-Moon Lee Center for Asian Art and Culture -- in honor of the Silicon Valley entrepreneur who gave an unparalleled $15 million to the museum's capital campaign in 1999.
		Like the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in its many years as a tenant of the Veterans Memorial Building, the Asian Art Museum, from its founding, saw its prestige dimmed by having to occupy an architectural appendage to the de Young Museum in Golden Gate Park.
		Art historians and conservators argued that the Piazzonis' removal would mean their destruction, through irreparable damage, ultimate neglect or both.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/03/16/PK206996.DTL (1601 words)

	Asian Art Museum in San Francisco - Guide to San Francisco's Asian Art Museum
		This museum houses the largest collection of Asian art in the West, with 14,000 treasures representing over 40 Asian countries spanning 6,000 years of history.
		Museum guests will also be able to view Chinese and Buddist Arts with more than 100 bronzes and sculpture, including the Money Tree, a rare bronze funerary object from the second and third centuries CE.
		The museum is fully wheelchair accessible and a limited number of wheelchairs are available without charge at the museum entrance.
	san-francisco.travelape.com /attractions/asian-art-museum/index.html (334 words)

	San Francisco Asian Art Museum Near the Best Western Grosvenor Hotel
		San Francisco International Airport - Information about the airport including how to get there, maps, the location of different airlines, and details on the expansion project.
		Of all the museums in San Francisco, the Asian Art Museum, is one of the largest museums in the Western world devoted exclusively to eastern art.
		The San Francisco Asian Art Museum is the result of the rehabilitation and adaptive reuse of the city’s former Main Library, a 1917 beaux arts–style building.
	www.grosvenorsfo.com /san-francisco/asian-art-museum-san-francisco.htm (439 words)

	San Francisco Hotels: Asian Art Museum
		Asian Art Museum has many hotels located within 5 miles.
		The Asian Art Museum of San Francisco is one of the largest museums in the Western world dedicated wholly to Asian art.
		The museum's mission is to lead a varied global audience in discovering the unique material, artistic, and intellectual achievements of Asian art and culture.
	www.roomrate.com /sanFrancisco/attractions/AsianArtMuseum.asp (177 words)

	Asian Art Museum San Francisco- SF sightseeing attractions-Must See San Francisco
		The Asian Art Museum is one of the largest museums in the Western world devoted exclusively to Asian art.
		The museum’s new home is the result of the rehabilitation and adaptive reuse of the city’s former Main Library, a 1917 beaux arts–style building.
		Renowned architect Gae Aulenti oversaw the dramatic transformation of the building—now featuring 40,000 square feet of gallery space—allowing the museum to better fulfill its mission of leading a diverse global audience in discovering the unique material, aesthetic, and intellectual achievements of Asian art and culture.
	www.mustseesanfrancisco.com /attractions/asian-art-museum.html (133 words)

	Major Art Museums of the Bay Area
		French Art from the middle ages through 19th century; prints and drawings from all ages and cultures.
		Museum is closed because of structural damage resulting from the October 1989 earthquake but is expected to reopen in early 1998.
		To the art museum: $3.00 general; students free with I.D. General admission to the history exhibition is $1.50
	arts.ucsc.edu /divarts/boards/arthist/museums.html (765 words)

	The Asian Art Museum - View - San Francisco's new museum Architectural Review, The - Find Articles
		When San Francisco's Asian Art Museum reopened this spring in its new home, the collections completed an odyssey that began in 1932 when its original donor, the Chicago industrialist Avery Brundage, fell in love with Chinese art at a Burlington House exhibition in London.
		This is a moment of divide: a glass-enclosed balcony overlooking San Francisco on one side and on the other, at the gallery entrance, a stone Ganesha, the elephant-headed Hindu God of literature and pleasure.
		Another mood and the hand of another architect prevail in the galleries, that of George Sexton, the Washington DC museum installation and lighting designer known for his open-storage study centres at both the Sainsbury Centre for the Visual Arts and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
	findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m3575/is_1276_213/ai_103826389 (938 words)

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