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Other SEA Collections

In addition to its library collections, the University of Michigan houses an extensive Southeast Asia related museum collection.

The Philippine Photographs Digital Archive
The Digital photographs archive consists of over 2,100 images taken from the following Special Collections Library photograph collections. In general, the images depict Filipinos, buildings, dwellings, and monuments in and around Manila, Filipino political and military leaders, members of American commissions and military units based in the Philippines, and numerous landscape scenes, particularly on Mindanao and in Lanoa Province.

The University of Michigan Museum of Anthropology
One of the nation's largest collections of Southeast Asian archaeology, featuring various collections on the Philippines (including the Dean Worcester photograph collection) and on Thailand.

The University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)
The UMMA collection of Southeast Asian art is focused on Buddhist and Hindu sculpture from Thailand, Cambodia, and Indonesia.

The Department of History of Art Archives
The Department of History of Art houses two significant collections:

  • The Southeast Asian Art Foundation Archive (SAAF Archive) contains approximately 100,000 photographs and slides, and features 18 collections of visual materials by photographers and leading scholars of Southeast Asian art. Collections may be viewed through the U-M Digital Library here.
  • The Southeast Asia Archive contains photographs of monuments, sculpture and murals of Thailand and Java.