Washington, United States

National Museum of Asian Art (Freer & Sackler)

The National Museum of Asian Art comprises the Freer Gallery of Art (1923) and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery (1987), the Smithsonian's combined home for the arts of Asia. The Freer, designed by Charles Adams Platt in an Italian Renaissance idiom, opened with Charles Lang Freer's gift of Asian and American art, including the celebrated Peacock Room by James McNeill Whistler. Together the museums hold more than 46,000 works spanning Neolithic China to contemporary Asia, with major collections of Chinese, Japanese, Korean, South and Southeast Asian, and Islamic art.

The National Museum of Asian Art consists of the Smithsonian Institution’s two Asian art galleries, the Freer Gallery of Art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, which are situated in connecting buildings on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. The galleries are operated by the same board of trustees and share a budget. Both institutions are run by the same management, curatorial and other staff. The two galleries feature 45,000 works of Asian art. Source: Wikipedia