Having amassed some of the world's largest and most valuable art collections, Asia's super-rich are now on a mission to share their treasures with the public, and have begun pouring their money into private museums.

Private museums have been a feature of Indonesia’s art scene ever since collector Oei Hong Djien opened the OHD Museum in Jakarta in 1997, long before the recent building boom in Shanghai.

Several private museums have been built in Jakarta since then and the latest, the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Nusantara (Museum MACAN, for short), opened on November 4. Showcasing roughly 800 works by artists from around the world, it’s being billed as Indonesia’s first museum dedicated to modern and contemporary art.

Read the full article about Indonesia's new international art museum by Oliver Giles at Forbes.