Freer Gallery Fountain
The Freer Gallery of Art joins the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
to form the Smithsonian Institution's national museums of Asian
art. The Freer contains art from East Asia, South Asia, Southeast
Asia, the Islamic world, the ancient Near East, and ancient
Egypt, as well as a significant collection of American art. It is
located on the south side of the National Mall in Washington,
D.C., adjacent to the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery.
The Freer houses over 25,000 objects spanning 6,000 years of
history, including but not limited to ancient Egyptian stone
sculpture and wooden objects, ancient Near Eastern ceramics and
metalware, Chinese paintings and ceramics, Korean pottery and
porcelain, Japanese Byōbu, Persian manuscripts, and Buddhist
sculpture. Collections span from the Neolithic to modern eras.
Photo 46, Nov 2011