[2] The Freer Gallery of Art opened in 1923 to display the nineteenth century American painting and Asian art collection of American industrialist Charles Lang Freer.

Freer provided an initial endowment used to construct the gallery building.

[4] The museum ended cooperation with the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office in 2022.

[5] In February, 2023, the museum entered into an agreement with the government of Yemen to hold and preserve 77 works of art that had been looted from that country.

[6] Among the works are 65 carved stone funerary stelae, which are approximately 2,500 years old.