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Artasia
Categories: Antiques, Furniture Stores, Art Galleries [Edit]
159 N BroadwayMilwaukee, WI 53202
(414) 220-4292
- Price Range:
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$$
- Accepts Credit Cards:
- Yes
- Wheelchair Accessible:
- No
3 reviews for Artasia
This place is a living, breathing, constantly morphing art and cultural museum, but unlike the Smithsonian- everything in here has a price tag neatly attached. Every time I step into this place I feel that I am stepping into a storage room of a museum who just received a huge shipment of artifacts from somewhere in Asia where it needs to be categorized and placed out on the floor.
Basically, this place is one huge, beautiful mess of all things Asian art. Pretty much anything that is aesthetic to the eye, ear, or even nose (they sell incense!) and comes from the abundant expanse that is Asia can be found here.
Massive Buddhas tucked into every corner or spot that can fit such monstrous pieces into the ever shrinking space. Small handcrafted jewelry pieces. Paintings, weapons, scrolls, old Hong Kong movie posters, silk dresses, wood-carved masks, religious artifacts, books, music, and some really wonderful pieces of furniture. Many objects centuries old, and other things made just last month.
About every nation in Asia is represented, so if there is a specific type of object or furniture piece you are looking for, you can bet this place probably has it, or at least knows how to get it for you.
If ever up in the Third Ward (and there are many reasons to go- the Public Market, Summer Fest Grounds, etc.), do yourself a favor and plan on spending a good amount of time here. You will surely find things of interest!
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Reminds me of a Pearl River Market in NY, but more geared towards statues and replica figures. This place can be both overhwelming and stuffy at the same time, and a sales associate was nowhere in site to greet the incoming customers.
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This place is like nothing I have ever seen! It is full of cool, life size statues of Indian gods, hand-carved four post bed frames, ethnic jewelry, furniture, and thousands of other one of a kind pieces. I could walk around this store for hours. I am in amazement to how they even got some of the pieces to fit in this place.
Please check Artasia out if you are ever in the Third Ward. It just opened it's new location a door down from where it used to be on Broadway. You will not be disappointed.
