| LC control no. | n 80085247 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Corporate name heading | Freer Gallery of Art |
| Variant(s) | Smithsonian Institution. Freer Gallery of Art |
| See also | Founder: Freer, Charles Lang, 1854-1919 Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery (Smithsonian Institution) National Museum of Asian Art (Smithsonian Institution) Hierarchical superior: Smithsonian Institution |
| Beginning date | 1923 |
| Located | Washington (D.C.) |
| Address | Jefferson Drive at 12th Street SW Washington DC 20013-7012 |
| Field of activity | Art, Asian |
| Found in | Wikipedia, December 16, 2009 (The Freer Gallery of Art, along with the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, forms the Smithsonian Institution's national museums of Asian art. It is located on the south side of the National Mall in Washington, D.C.; the gallery was founded by Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), a railroad-car manufacturer from Detroit, who gave his collections to the United States and also the funds to help construct a building for their display) Freer/Sackler WWW site, viewed December 13, 2018 About Us page (Freer Gallery of Art opened to the public in 1923) Email from Ginny Maycock, Office of Marketing & Communications at Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, December 12, 2018 ("Our formal name is the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery. Freer/Sackler is a shorthand version of that. It isn't a collaboration between the two places since we are the same institution") Copyright catalog, May 7, 2024 (authorship on application: Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.) Smithsonian Institution website, May 7, 2024 : under Freer Gallery of Art/About (The Smithsonian's National Museum of Asian Art includes the Freer Gallery of Art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery) <https://www.si.edu/Museums/freer-gallery> Washington Post (via Internet), Dec. 4, 2019 (The Freer Gallery of Art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery have long described themselves as the Smithsonian's Asian art museums. Now the two institutions want to be known as the National Museum of Asian Art; "National Museum of Asian Art" appears in large print on the new logo and at the top of the museums' redesigned website. The museum's legal names--the Freer Gallery of Art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery--are in tiny print below; the museums have separate collections but they operate on a single budget, with a shared advisory board and staff; the new name may cause some confusion as residents and tourists learn that it is the same as the former Freer/Sackler) |
| Associated language | eng |
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