Press Release Category: News
Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art Announces Landmark Endowments From the Leon Levy Foundation, The Lunder Foundation and Shirley Z. Johnson
Endowments Help Establish Three Named Curator Positions and Support Curatorial Research Initiatives
Largest Foundation Grant Ever Received by the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art Will Deepen Public Understanding of Asian Religions
$2.5 Million Grant From Lilly Endowment Inc. Supports Nexus of Asian Arts and Religions
Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art Partners With the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation To Grow Asian Art Provenance Researcher Community
Collaboration To Produce Expert Programming and Future Digital Research Platform
Mitsubishi Corporation To Renew $1 Million Sponsorship to the Freer and Sackler Galleries
Relationship Supports National Museum of Asian Art Exhibitions and Outreach for U.S.–Japan Collaboration
Masterpieces of Japanese Art from Collection of Mary and Cheney Cowles Donated to The Met, Freer|Sackler, and Portland Art Museum
Landmark Gift of Over 550 Works—Including Outstanding Examples of Painting, Calligraphy, and Ceramics—to Be Donated to the Three Institutions Over the Next Five Years

Detail, Krishna and his family admire a solar eclipse; F2017.13.5