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6 unusual facts about Freer Gallery of Art


Freer Gallery of Art

The Freer and Sackler's 'We Stand With Japan' in 2011 hosted Steve Aoki.

The Freer and Sackler's also presents family festivals such as its annual Nowruz celebration in March.

The Eugene and Agnes E. Meyer Auditorium, named after American financier and publisher Eugene Meyer is located in the Freer and provides a venue for a broad variety of free public programs.

Haft Awrang

Between 1556 and 1565, while he was governing Mashad, Prince Sultan Ibrahim Mirza, nephew and son-in-law of Shah Tahmasp I, commissioned his own atelier of painters and calligraphers to create a sumptuous illustrated version of the Haft Awrang, producing one of the undoubted, and last, masterpieces of the Persian miniature, now in the Freer Gallery of Art, and known as the Freer Jami.

Monkey Punch

On April 21, 2007, Monkey Punch participated in a series of lectures on the "interaction of manga and culture throughout the world" at the Freer Gallery of Art.

Ueno Hikoma

Eight of Ueno's photographs can be found online from the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.


Charles Lang Freer House

The house was originally built for the industrialist and art collector Charles Lang Freer, whose gift of the Freer Gallery of Art began the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC.

Codex Washingtonianus

It is located in the Smithsonian Institution at the Freer Gallery of Art (06. 274) in Washington, D.C., United States of America, and some of it can be viewed on-line.

William Stone Weedon

The Weedon Foundation is Non-Profit and regularly makes charitable grants to the Freer Gallery of Art, The Asia Society of New York, and the Richmond Museum of Fine Arts, among others.


see also

Amit Dutta

Prof. Dr. Milo C. Beach, the eminent American art historian, director emeritus Freer Gallery of Art, Washington DC.