The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art arose from the aspirations of two individuals who likely never met, who had vastly different lives, but who each imagined a public art museum for Kansas City and the surrounding region. Both died more than 100 years…

Round hat with falling brim. by Annette Hug The beginning of the Völkerkundemuseum der Universität Zürich lay in the collection of the Ethnographic Society of Zurich, founded in 1888. The first director, the medical doctor Otto Stoll…

The National Gallery has a significant collection of Amorsolos, including this atypical piece painted in 1945. Defend thy Honor by Fernando C. Amorsolo. Image courtesy of National Heritage Board, Singapore Established in 2015, National Gallery…

The National Art Library is a major reference library, situated in the Victoria and Albert Museum, a museum of decorative arts in London. Being a reference library, the NAL does not circulate its materials—all items must be accessed and consulted…

The Prado Museum (El Museo del Prado)

Model of Guilalo Ship. Donated to Museo Naval by the former Ministry of Overseas, and was delivered to the Naval Museum once the General Exhibition of the Philippine Islands of 1887 ended. **Text from the exhibition catalog for Asia y el Museo…

The Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago

The museum opened on GW’s Foggy Bottom Campus in 2015 as the new home of The Textile Museum, established in 1925, and the Albert H. Small Washingtoniana Collection, donated to GW in 2011. The museum occupies a custom-built facility and the adjoining…

43597: Philippine Basket, undated. Identifier number 09.1029, courtesy of the Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, RI, and a gift of the American Museum of Natural History The Philippine Collection at RISD by Cristina Juan*There is…

The Philadelphia Museum of Art is an art museum originally chartered in 1876 for the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia. The museum administers collections containing over 240,000 objects including major holdings of European, American and Asian…

Fish trap for catching fish in the rice fields, especially eels. The Linden Museum in Stuttgart has a total of 316 Philippine objects cataloged in its internal database - with only 99 objects published in its online collection. A majority of the 99…

Museo Nacional de Artes Decorativas

Extensive collection (over 8,000 ethnographic and photographic materials) from the Philippines, primarily acquired between 1900 and 1930 by anthropologists, colonial administrators, and other collectors such as Henry Otley Beyer, John M. Garvan,…