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Eric Nam sitting on a boat in the ocean

Don't Miss These Celebrity Performances by K-Pop Sensation Eric Nam, Breakout Star Raveena and Many More

Exciting new free programs announced in celebration of the museum's centennial for Asian Pacific American Heritage Month

Jennifer A. Mitchell | April 7, 2023

Kuniyoshi zatsuga shū 国芳雑画集, pp. 4–5, Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797–1861), 1856, FSC-GR-780.723.

The Guiding Hand of Past Masters

If you’re a book lover, you might enjoy exploring the Pulverer Collection of Japanese Illustrated Books, acquired in 2007 by the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery. Formed over a span of thirty years by Dr. Gerhard Pulverer and his wife Rosemarie, the collection includes over 900 titles (totaling approximately 2,200 volumes) mostly from the Edo period (1603–1868), although there are a number of twentieth-century works as well.

Kit Brooks | August 16, 2021

Conservator Jiro Ueda positions the handscroll prior to reflectance imaging spectroscopy. A large camera mounted above his head captures images through a hole in the table

Behind the Scenes: Imaging A Japanese Handscroll

Learn how conservators at the National Museum of Asian Art preserved this fragile Japanese hand scroll "Miraculous Interventions of Jizo Bosatsu."

Matthew Clarke | May 22, 2021

Correspondence from President Theodore Roosevelt to Charles Lang Freer, Freer and Sackler Archives.

This Day in Freer History: May 5, 1906

On this day in 1906, Charles Lang Freer and the Smithsonian Institution agreed to the donation of his art collection and funds for the building of a museum to house it.

Lisa Fthenakis | May 5, 2021
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