Freer Gallery of Art
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Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
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Two Distinct Galleries, One Perfect Venue
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Arthur M. Sackler Gallery |
- Address
- Jefferson Drive at 12th Street SW
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- Address
- 1050 Independence Avenue SW
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- Museum Capacity
- Seated (rounds): 350
- Standing: 500
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- Museum Capacity
- Seated (rounds): 240
- Standing: 500
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- Style
- National Mall entrance
- Palatial elegance
- Classic Italian Renaissance
- Sunlit and moonlit
- Regal and refined
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- Style
- Pavilion
- Sublevel 1 lobby
- Sleek and modern
- Dramatic three-story stairwell
- Skylights and reflecting pool
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- Objects in Collection
- 24,057 | from China, Japan, Korea, India, Pakistan, Turkey, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Central Asia, and Egypt
- 1,708 | from the United States
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- Objects in Collection
- 8,818 | from China, Japan, Korea, India, Iran, and South and Southeast Asia
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- Architectural Details
- Two-level Italian Renaissance palazzo
- Meyer Auditorium on ground floor
- Eighteen galleries linked by four arched corridors
- Central courtyard open to the sky, with walls of unpolished Tennessee white marble
- Carnelian granite fountain
- Bronze filigree on the doors and chandeliers
- Exterior of pink granite quarried in Milford, Massachusetts
- Interior walls of Indiana limestone
- Floors of polished Tennessee marble
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- Architectural Details
- Three-level subterranean gallery extending 57 feet below ground
- 4,130-square-foot granite pavilion
- Grand staircase and atrium
- Angular skylights
- Reflecting pool on bottom level
- Granite walls
- Underground exhibition space connecting to the Freer Gallery of Art
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To learn more, please download the Freer and Sackler Special Events Brochure (PDF, 2.18MB).
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