Wikipedia, Dec. 16, 2009 (The Freer Gallery of Art, along with the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, forms the Smithsonian Institution's national museums of Asian art. It is located on the south side of the National Mall in Washington, D.C.; the gallery was founded by Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), a railroad-car manufacturer from Detroit, who gave his collections to the United States and also the funds to help construct a building for their display))