1. Find the hidden museum
cats in Washington D.C.
By Tish Wells
McClatchy Washington Bureau
August 12, 2014
WASHINGTON— There are
felines hiding in the Freer Gallery of
Art and the Arthur M. Sackler
Gallery.
Cats lurk in odd corners of the refined and elegant museums on the
National Mall in Washington D.C., just waiting to be found.
One sits demurely in a well-viewed corner of the fabled Peacock
Room.Another is mounted on a wall staring inscrutably over the
heads of wandering tourists. A third is the back of a mirror that likely
reflected the face of a Chinese aristocrat applying her make-up.
“We see evidence and writings about, that mention cats as early as
the 11th – 12th century,” says Ann Yonemura, the Freer’s Senior
Associate Curator of Japanese Art.
The Freer was built to hold the Asian collectionof Charles Lang Freer
from his worldwide trips in the early 1900s.Next door,the Arthur M.
Sackler Gallery holds South Asian items from India, Iran and other
countries in the region.
Where do you find the Freer and Sackler's cats?
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