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The article focuses on the developments of the Oriental collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art in Ohio. It is inferred that the Oriental collection offers oriental scholars and art historians helpful information. The Oriental department was established in 1915, when Ralph King donated the head of Buddha from the Northern Ch'i Period, and Langdon Warner was appointed as the department's Advisory Curator in 1916. In 1938, the museum acquired the "Cranes and Serpents," which is thought to be the most valuable pre-Buddhist Chinese sculpture worldwide. In 1970, the museum added new galleries, under architect Paul Ruth, which installed the Oriental collections in a new setting and incorporated innovative exhibition techniques. Several art exhibitions of the museum are also discussed.