Freer Gallery of Art
- Architect
- Charles A. Platt
- Year
- 1923
- City
- Washington, DC
The Freer Gallery of Art at 1200 Jefferson Drive SW is a Smithsonian museum of Asian art on the south side of the National Mall, designed by Charles A. Platt and opened in 1923. Built to house Charles Freer's collection, it now forms the National Museum of Asian Art together with the adjoining Sackler Gallery, sharing a single staff and the country's largest Asian art research library.
the building
Six thousand years of collecting. The Freer holds over 26,000 objects spanning the Neolithic to modern eras, including Chinese paintings and ceramics, Korean pottery and porcelain, Japanese folding screens, Persian manuscripts, Buddhist sculpture, ancient Egyptian and Near Eastern artifacts, and American art.
significance
A DC Historic Landmark and National Register of Historic Places listed property, the Freer has long ranked among the most visited art museums in the world and, joined underground with the Sackler Gallery, anchors the Smithsonian's Asian art holdings on the National Mall.
nearby
- Smithsonian Institution
- Jamie L. Whitten Building
- Arts and Industries Building, Smithsonian Institution (National Museum)
- Department of Agriculture South Building
- U.S. Department of Agriculture Cotton Annex
- U.S. Government Central Heating Plant