Asia at MEG
The Asia department covers the immense expanse from the left bank of the Bosphorus in Turkey to the island of Borneo. This continent represents nearly 30 % of the dry land of the planet and numbers 4.3 billion habitants, some two thirds of the world population. With its history spanning several millennia, Asia is the melting pot of some of the most sophisticated human cultures. For some years now it has emerged as one of the world’s main economic players. This section opens with cartography, the first European charts of Asia, and then explores three themes: religious iconography, writing and power, taking visitors eastwards across the Asian continent.
Display cases
2. Three remarkable objects
3. European cartography
4. Religious iconography
5. Hindu iconography
6. Chinese Buddhist iconography
7. Chinese Buddhist iconography
8. Japanese Buddhist iconography
9. Japanese Buddhist iconography
10. Tibetan Buddhist iconography
11. Tibetan Buddhist iconography
12. Writing
13. Power
14. Japan of the samurai
15. Japan of the samurai
16. East Indies (Insulindia)
17. Colonial power and opium
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