James Q. Chan
To investigate how mobile libraries address educational and cultural disparities in Bangladesh and Bhutan in rural communities grappling with socio-economic challenges.
Learn MoreTo investigate how mobile libraries address educational and cultural disparities in Bangladesh and Bhutan in rural communities grappling with socio-economic challenges.
Learn Moreto enable two scholars from the Fowler Museum at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) to collaborate with cultural specialists in Bhutan and India in preparation for an exhibition to be presented in Los Angeles and at the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) in New York
Support for international travel and research component of new exhibitions focusing on the lives of women textile-makers in Southeast Asia
to support an internship by Mrs. Tran Thi Thu Thuy from the Vietnam Museum of Ethnology
Learn Moreto support travel and research by Lisa Shekede and Stephen Rickerby in Bhutan in August 2011.
Learn Moreto enable a curatorial team from the Academy and the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco to travel to Bhutan in fall 2006 to continue research and planning for an exhibition on arts of Bhutan to be held in 2008
to enable a curatorial team from the Academy and the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco to travel to Bhutan to undertake research and planning for an exhibition on arts of Bhutan to be held in 2008
to continue, in collaboration with the Bernice P. Bishop Museum, Honolulu, a pilot museum training program for the Asia-Pacific area and to enable the following participants to survey museums in the United States: Ajit Simba P. Bais, the National Children's Museum, New Delhi, India; Kai Sen Chew, National Museum, Singapore; Charles C. Y. Chi, National Palace Museum, Taipei, Republic of China; Joseph I. A. Gasing, Sarawak Museum, Kutching Malaysia; Abdul Latif Ibrahim, Muzium Brunei, Bandar, Malaysia; Iftikhar Alam Khan, Aligarh Muslim University, India; Sadao Kosuge, National Science Museum, Tokyo, Japan; Byung Hoon Lee, National Science Museum, Seoul, Korea; Nan Young Lee, National Museum of Korea , Seoul, Korea; Pranowo Martodiardjo, the National Biological Institute, Bogor, Indonesia; Takeshi Ogiwara, National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, Japan; Mohan Chandra Pande, State Museum, Lucknow, India; Aurora Pelayo, Cultural Research Center, Silliman University, Dumaguete City, Dumaguete City, Philippines; Rosario B. Tantoco, National Museum of the Philippines, Manila, Philippines.
To establish, in collaboration with the Bernice P. Bishop Museum, Honolulu, a pilot museum training program for the Asia-Pacific area and to enable the following participants to survey museums in the United States: Ajit Simba P. Bais, the National Children's Museum, New Delhi, India; Kai Sen Chew, National Museum, Singapore; Charles C. Y. Chi, National Palace Museum, Taipei, Republic of China; Joseph I. A. Gasing, Sarawak Museum, Kutching, Malaysia; Abdul Latif Ibrahim, Muzium Brunei, Bandar, Malaysia; Iftikhar Alam Khan, Aligarh Muslim University, India; Sadao Kosuge, National Science Museum, Tokyo, Japan; Byung Hoon Lee, National Science Museum, Seoul, Korea; Nan Young Lee, National Museum of Korea , Seoul, Korea; Pranowo Martodiardjo, the National Biological Institute, Bogor, Indonesia; Takeshi Ogiwara, National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, Japan; Mohan Chandra Pande, State Museum, Lucknow, India; Aurora Pelayo, Cultural Research Center, Silliman University, Dumaguete City, Philippines; Rosario B. Tantoco, National Museum of the Philippines, Manila, Philippines
Learn Moretravel for Susan Bean, Diane Myers, and Julia Brennan to assist in the development of a new textile museum
Project. Support to enable Jun Kobayashi, curator at the Edo-Tokyo Museum, to undertake research in the Peabody Essex Museum's Morse collection in preparation for a 1999 exhibition in Japan.
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