Virtual Collection of Asian Masterpieces

The Virtual Collection of Asian Masterpieces (VCM) shares more than 2,700 Masterpieces of Asian culture online. Since its launch in 2007 more than 145 museums in Asia and Europe have joined the VCM.

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search platform to a collection of Asian masterpieces

OwnerNational Museum of Ethnology, Rijksmuseum Volkenkunde, Leiden (The Netherlands)

URLVirtual Collection of Asian Masterpieces

Commercialno

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Virtual Collection of Asian Masterpieces

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Type of site	search platform to a collection of Asian masterpieces
Owner	National Museum of Ethnology, Rijksmuseum Volkenkunde, Leiden (The Netherlands)
URL	Virtual Collection of Asian Masterpieces
Commercial	no
Launched	13 September 2007
Current status	version 3.0

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The VCM is originally a project of the ASEMUS - the Asia-Europe Museums Network. The VCM is now led by a consortium of five Asian and European museums:^[1]

• National Museum of Korea, Seoul, South Korea
• Chester Beatty Library, Dublin, Ireland
• National Museum of Ethnology (Rijksmuseum Volkenkunde), Leiden, The Netherlands
• Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

• Museum of World Culture, Gothenburg, Sweden