The Asiatic Arts collections gathered at the Villa Jules Verne make up the holdings of the Municipal Museum of Asiatic Arts. Since 2001, they are on public display in a specially conceived space. Acquired in the Far East, India, Tibet, and the Asiatic Southeast by French collectors, often sailors from Toulon, they were bequeathed to the City of Toulon concurrently with the creation of a public collection. Of various origins and taste, these collections offer a wide overview of so-called Asian civilizations. One should keep in mind, while visiting the collection, that one sole motivation ? the new religion ? is behind the arts that developed in India, Tibet, China and Japan. Buddism engendered an art proper to each of these civilizations, each of which already possessed its specific culture, rites, and beliefs. We are therefore fortunate to possess first-rank works in the collection, in particular the votive statue realized between the 11th and 12th centuries, the Buddist stele realized in 755, when this art was at its apex, an extremely beautiful head of Bodhisattva from the begininning of the Tang and Song Dynasty, as well as a sublime collection of Jades from the era of the Royaumes Combattants (475-221) and that of the Emperor Qianlong ( 1736-1795).