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Pacific Asia Museum | Museum/Attraction Review | Los Angeles | Frommers.com - expert review
The most striking aspect of this museum is the building itself. Designed in the 1920s in Chinese Imperial Palace style, its rivaled in flamboyance only by Graumans Chinese Theatre in Hollywood. Rotating exhibits of 14,000 rare Asian and Pacific Islands...
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Welcome to the Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena, California
This museum was originally the home and art galleries of an extraordinary woman named Grace Nicholson, who came to Pasadena from Philadelphia in 1901. In 1924, Nicholson commissioned local architects Marston, Van Pelt & Maybury to build a Chinese-style building for “Oriental and Western Ar...
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In 1924 when Grace Nicholson took the bold step of designing and constructing a building to resemble a Northern Chinese Imperial style palace, she may well have foreseen that her project would become a landmark historical building in Pasadena. What she probably could not have predicted was the way t...
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Pasadena Daily Photo: Storm Clouds Over the Pacific Asia Museum
said these museums (major ones) were raided by Federal agents looking for Southeast Asian antiquities thought to have been obtained illegally (i.e., looted) and smuggled into the U.S. in an alleged donation scheme that invo...
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Pacific Asia Museum - Pasadena - Pasadena, CA
What's more fascinating is the different animals that were embroidered onto the robes. Military officers had real and mythical ferocious 4-legged animals in descending rank order from QiLin, lion, leopard, tiger, bear, panther, and rhinoceros. While civil officers' robes bear the avian image...
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Pacific Asia Museum - Pasadena - Reviews of Pacific Asia Museum - TripAdvisor
This is a jewel of a museum in the converted Chinese style home of Grace Nicholson who lived in Pasadena in the early 20th c. The collections are esp. strong in Chinese ceramics, Jade, and Tibetan art. The galleries surround a traditional Chinese courtyard with a koi pool. Many education programs, d...
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Artcom Museums Tour: Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena, CA
Permanent collection galleries showcase highlights from the museum's 17,000 art and cultural objects. Items include Chinese porcelains, carved jade, Japanese Edo period paintings, carved netsuke, Southeast Asian ceramics, Indian artifacts, Japanese otsu-e (folk paintings), Tibetan thankas, Indonesia...
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Pacific Asia Museum -- Pasadena, CA -- posted by Community Wire
The Pacific Asia Museum, the only museum in Southern California specializing in the arts of the Pacific and Asia, is housed in the historic Grace Nicholson Building. Designed in Chinese Imperial Palace style and built in the early 1920's, the museum offers exhibitions and changing displays of object...
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Pacific Asia Museum in Pasadena
The museum is relatively small, with a half dozen galleries around the courtyard which display the art and cultural elements of Asia and the Pacific Islands. Rotating themed exhibits are created from the Pacific Asia Museum's collection of 14,000 artistic works and artifacts. You may see Japanese ab...
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Pacific Asia Museum: Grace's legacy - Pasadena Star-News
Another treasure of the museum was given by a donor who knew just how valuable her gift would be to the institution. In 1998, Maria Lim McClay donated a pair of earrings and a necklace made of the finest quality of jade. The earrings were made from hair pieces that belonged to Cixi, the last empress...
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