Photo by Tim Brown.

If you don’t get to the Freer Gallery of Art, you’ll have to wait until 2017 to see the extensive collection of Asian art.

One of the Smithsonian’s two museums dedicated to the subject, the Freer is closing on January 4 for major renovations. The work will include new technologies, infrastructure updates, “refreshed” gallery spaces, and improvements to the Eugene and Agnes E. Meyer Auditorium.

While the museum’s most iconic work—James Whistler’s iconic Peacock Room—will be inaccessible to the public during the closure, the Sackler Gallery is still open and hosting a modern take on the work. Painter Darren Waterston’s Filthy Lucre reimagines the Peacock Room “as a decadent ruin collapsing under the weight of its own creative excess.” And all 25,000 items in the collection (plus 15,000 from the Sackler) have been digitized, so you can visit them online at your leisure.

Still, there’s no substitute for the real thing. In the remaining days, there are daily tours, and the final weekend will feature special events. On January 2-3, visitors find a family-friendly open studio to make “mini galleries” filled with reproductions of Freer works, temporary tattoos of the Peacock Room, life-sized cutouts of Charles Lang Freer and James McNeill Whistler, and other ways to commemorate the closing.

After January 4, the Smithsonian reminds visitors, “the Sackler Gallery will remain open and as dynamic as ever.”