Asia: Museums, wealth, and research projects of vanity?

The Museum of fine arts, Yinchuan, China: for a luxury button.

Under the new centres of commercial luxury and residential area are highly complex new museums are the most visible characteristics of the economic boom in Asia.

It is a phenomenon, new generation of wealthy collectors like to show mainly driven by their wealth and a gap in a region where the public-funded museums, often in Western capitals, are rare.

The trend is particularly visible in China, where last year the opening of more than 390 museums as part of the Government campaign to the world of class economic and cultural reported.

"Asia has very rich history and Patriomonio, so this is a natural projection," said Kwok Kian CHOW, consultant for the National Gallery of art Singapore.

Kwok helps create also an art museum, some 279 million dollars, the Yellow River Arts Center, costs financed with private capital and probably opens in 2014 in the Northwest of People's Republic of China.