South and Southeast Asian Collection Highlights

The MFA’s collection of South Asian art, the first such museum collection to be formed in the US, features excavated material from the Indus Valley Civilization, the renowned Ross-Coomaraswamy Collection of Rajput paintings, paintings and ritual objects from the Himalayan regions, important Hindu and Buddhist sculptures. In addition to one of the most significant collections of Vietnamese ceramics in the United States, the Southeast Asian art collection includes works of stone and bronze sculpture and ritual objects from Indonesia, Thailand, Cambodia, Myanmar (Burma), and Vietnam.