Museum of Asian Art of Corfu

The Museum of Asian Art of Corfu is a museum inside the Palace of St. Michael and St. George in Corfu, Greece. The most effective museum in Greece devoted to the artwork of Asia, it has collections of Chinese artwork, Japanese art, Indian artwork and others. The museum opened in 1927 because the Museum of Sino-Japanese art with the donation of the Gregorios Manos collection. A Greek ambassador to Austria, Manos 1850-1928 had bought approximately 9,500 Chinese, Korean and Japanese artefacts at art auctions in Vienna and Paris in the past due 19th and early 20th century.

He compiled, recorded and catalogued his series himself, with almost scientific consistency, and is appeared as the first Greek authority on Far Eastern artwork. In 1919, he donated his series to the Greek State, at the circumstance that a Sino-Japanese art museum be opened in Corfu. The collection consists of some 11 thousand gadgets, the oldest from the 11th century BC. Artistic collections encompass Japanese published images, Chinese porcelain, and Indian sculptures in bronze and different substances plus wood carvings.

Administratively, the museum is a Special Regional Service of the Ministry of Culture, with the intention of researching and protecting the cultural background of Asia and sell it in Greece and Europe. It is a member of the Asia-Europe Museum Network. The front charge in March 2013 is 3 euros. The museum has a number of postcards on sale plus a book of Chinese pottery within the collection in addition to an normal manual that omits the major Indian works of artwork on display.