East Asia Gallery Tours
Brooklyn Museum
East Asia Gallery Tours
The Brooklyn Museum’s Chinese collection ranges from the Neolithic era to today, revealing the sophistication of Chinese craftsmanship and the variety of concerns—funerary, courtly, religious, and poetic—that combined to define traditional Chinese culture. The works also demonstrate an enduring respect for antiquity as well as novel, contemporary approaches to time-honored materials such as ink and bronze.
East Asia Galleries: Innovation - In the pre-modern period, ceramics represented the cutting edge of material science.
The trading of goods and materials across land and sea routes brought ideas and cultures across long distances
East Asia Galleries: Cultural Diversity - The cultural diversity of the region can be seen across the East Asia galleries.