Located on the third floor of the North Wing building, the Arts of Global Asia galleries feature key artworks from a collection of 30,000 objects.
The centerpiece of the galleries is the Tibetan Buddhist altar, created in 1988–91 by Tibetan artist Phuntsok Dorje in collaboration with a team of Tibetan consultants and scholars. This altar was consecrated in 1990 by His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama.
We are reimagining the Art of Global Asia galleries over the next three years. Many of the artworks and interactive experiences are now organized around the universal stories found throughout Asian art. Three themes in particular—heroes, nature, and transcendence—all relate to human experience across cultures, time, and space.
A special feature in these galleries is the Community Lab where workshops, demonstrations, participatory activities, and collaborative art projects take place to amplify the community’s relationship to Asian art.
