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The Freer Gallery of Art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery: two buildings, one museum. Come see us at our home on the National Mall in Washington, DC. Plan Your Visit
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- Art and Industry: China’s Ancient Houma Foundry
- The Peacock Room Comes to America
- A Collector’s Eye: Freer in Egypt
- Ruffled Feathers: Creating Whistler’s Peacock Room
- Shifting Boundaries: Perspectives on American Landscapes
- The Print Generation
- The Sogdians: Influencers on the Silk Roads
- Dream Worlds: Modern Japanese Prints and Paintings from the Robert O. Muller Collection
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The Smithsonian's National Museum of Asian Art includes the Freer Gallery of Art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery. The Freer Gallery houses one of the premier collections of Asian art, with objects dating from Neolithic times to the early 20th century, as well as the world's most important collection of works by James McNeill Whistler.
The Freer Gallery of Art and the Sackler Gallery are part of the National Museum of Asian Art, which preserves, exhibits, and interprets Asian art from antiquity to the present. The museum showcases the richness of premodern and modern Asian arts, the cultural identity of Asian Americans, and the contemporary world.
The Freer Gallery of Art is an art museum of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. focusing on Asian art. The Freer and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery together form the National Museum of Asian Art in the United States.
- Platt, Charles A.
- 1923
- Late 19th and 20th century revivals, Florentine Renaissance
Learn about the history, collections and research of the Freer Gallery of Art, the first museum of the Smithsonian Institution dedicated to the fine arts. Explore its Asian art collection, which spans 6,000 years and many different cultures, and its American art collection, which includes the world’s largest number of works by James McNeill Whistler.
Learn about the history and building of the Freer Gallery of Art, the first art museum on the Smithsonian campus, which showcases Asian and American art from different periods and cultures. Discover the famous Peacock Room, a masterpiece of James McNeill Whistler's Aesthetic movement, and the stories behind its origin and design.
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