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The dipole strength of the N=28 nuclide ⁵⁴Fe was studied in photon-scattering experiments using bremsstrahlung produced with electron beams of energies of 7.5 and 13.9 MeV at the gELBE facility as well as using quasi-monoenergetic and linearly polarized photon beams of 26 energies within the range from 5.5 to 11.4 MeV at the HIgS facility. About 100 J=1 states were identified, out of them 19 with 1⁺ and 30 with 1^- assignment. The quasicontinuum of unresolved transitions was included in the analysis of the spectra and the intensities of branching transitions were estimated on the basis of simulations of statistical γ-ray cascades. As a result, the photoabsorpton cross section up to the neutron-separation energy was determined and compared with predictions of statistical reaction codes. The experimental M1 strengths from resolved 1⁺ states are compared with results of large-scale shell-model calculations.