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Walk two connected Smithsonian galleries of Asian art on the National Mall, including the Peacock Room.
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The Smithsonian's National Museum of Asian Art is made up of the Freer Gallery of Art, opened in 1923, and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, opened in 1987, in connecting buildings on the National Mall. Together they hold about 45,000 works of Asian art. Displays range from Chinese jade and porcelain to scroll paintings, and the Peacock Room is part of the museum. Under Charles Lang Freer's will, works from the Freer collection never travel, so you can see them only here.
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