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African Art

The African art collection is now made up of some 3,000 works dating from antiquity through the 20th century, with over 200 cultural groups represented.

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American Decorative Arts

Featuring approximately 20,000 objects in all media, the collection of American decorative arts is among the finest in the United States.

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American Paintings and Sculpture

The American paintings and sculpture collection offers a teaching resource unparalleled in any university museum and is considered among the greatest public collections of American art in the nation.

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Ancient Art

The collection of art from the ancient Mediterranean world includes over 13,000 objects from the Near East, Egypt, Greece, Etruria, and Rome.

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Art of the Ancient Americas

The collection of art from the ancient Americas comprises approximately 1,500 objects, crossing cultural boundaries from the Olmec to the Inca and spanning more than 2,500 years.

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Asian Art

The Asian art collection of nearly 8,000 works—from East Asia, South Asia, continental Southeast Asia, Iran, Iraq, and Turkey—spans the Neolithic period to the 21st century.

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European Art

The European art collection comprises works from the 9th through the 19th century, including one of the world’s finest groups of early Italian Renaissance paintings.

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Indo-Pacific Art

The collection represents the art of maritime Southeast Asia and includes over 26,000 objects, with strengths in ethnographic sculpture, ancient gold, textiles, and puppets.

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