New Galleries Open at Freer

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Category: Chronology of Smithsonian History
Notes: Annual Report of the Smithsonian Institution for the year 1931. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1931, p. 56.
Summary: In the greatest change to the Freer Gallery of Art since its opening, four new galleries open, and exhibitions change in two others. New galleries in the western end of the building display Near Eastern and Indian art. Galleries in the eastern end of the building now display only Chinese art.
Contact information: Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, SW, Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu

Topic: Art museums; Art objects; Exhibit openings; Indian art; Art, Chinese; Art, Asian; Galleries; Museum buildings; Exhibitions