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2007: The Freer Gallery acquires the Gerhard Pulverer collection of Japanese illustrated books produced in the Edo period and beyond
2011: The Dalai Lama visits the Sackler Gallery when Alice Kendell donates her collection of Tibetan Buddhist art to the museum.
2011: The Peacock Room is restored to its appearance in 1908 when Charles Lang Freer used the room to display more than 250 ceramics he collected throughout Asia.
2017: The Freer|Sackler reopens on October 14 wit grand festivities attended by thousands of art and museum lovers.
2018: The Secretary of the Smithsonian announces the appointment of Chase Robinson, an Islamic scholar, as director of the Freer|Sackler.
2023: Join us when the Freer Gallery of Art celebrates the centennial of opening its doors to the public. Here's to another century of presenting and preserving the arts! |