A British Museum Tour
China – Journey to the East
Museums in Britain with Chinese collections
British Museum, London
www.britishmuseum.org
Victoria and Albert Museum, London
www.vam.ac.uk
Horniman Museum, London
www.horniman.ac.uk
Croydon Museum, London
www.museumofcroydon.com
Barlow Collection, University of Sussex
www.sussex.ac.uk/barlow
Bristol Museum and Art Gallery
www.bristol-city.gov.uk/museums
Museum of East Asian Art, Bath
www.meaa.org.uk
Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford
www.prm.ox.ac.uk
Compton Verney Art Gallery, Warwickshire
www.comptonverney.org.uk
Sainsbury’s Centre for Visual Arts
University of East Anglia, Norwich
www.scva.org.uk
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk
Chinese Arts Centre, Manchester
www.chinese-arts-centre.org
World Museum Liverpool
www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/wml
Oriental Museum, University of Durham
www.dur.ac.uk/oriental.museum
Burrell Collection, Glasgow
www.glasgowmuseums.com
Online search
The Museums, Archives and Library Council (MLA) have an online
search facility which allows you to search the collections of
museums across the United Kingdom. You can search using a key world
or through the search themes of time, people, place, subject or
culture.
www.cornucopia.org.uk
Image: Jade bi disc (ancient ritual object) inscribed by the Qianlong emperor (AD 1736–1795) who believed it to be a cup stand.
