Southwest Museum of the American Indian
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Southwest Museum from Sycamore-Grove Park
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| Location: | 234 Museum Dr Mt. Washington, Los Angeles, California |
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| NRHP Reference#: | 92001270 |
| Added to NRHP: | March 11, 2004 |
The Southwest Museum of the American Indian is a museum, library, and archive located in the Mt. Washington area of Los Angeles, California. It is part of the Autry National Center. Its collections deal mainly with the American Indian. However, it also has an extensive collection of pre-Hispanic, Spanish colonial, Latino, and Western American art and artifacts.
Major collections include rooms devoted to 1) American Indians of the Great Plains, 2) American Indians of California, and 3) American Indians of the Northwest Coast.
The museum is located at 234 Museum Drive in the City of Los Angeles.
Public transportation is available, such as the Metro Gold Line, which stops down the hill from the museum at the Southwest Museum station. Parking can be difficult to find.
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[edit] History
Charles Fletcher Lummis was an anthropologist, historian, journalist, and photographer who created the Southwest Society, which was the western branch of the Archaeological Institute of America. He gained the support of city leaders, and with the financial backing of attorney Joseph Scott and opened the Southwest Museum in 1907. The museum moved from Downtown Los Angeles to its current location in Mt. Washington in 1914, and has been there ever since.
The 1914 building was designed by architects Sumner P. Hunt and Silas Reese Burns. Later additions to the museum include the Caroline Boeing Poole Wing of Basketry (completed 1941), by architect Gordon B. Kaufmann, and the Braun Research Library (1971), by architect Glen E. Cook.
Frederick Russell Burnham, the highly decorated military scout and father of the international scouting movement, was an early president.[1]
[edit] Current Status
Because the 93-year-old building does not meet current seismic standards, the galleries at the museum are currently closed to the public. Extensive rehabilitation of the building and conservation of its rare collection of Native American artifacts is currently underway, with the goal of moving most of the collection to a new state-of-the-art home.[2] Plans call for the infrastructure improvements to the Southwest Museum to be completed by 2013.[3]
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ Dan L. Thrapp (1991). Encyclopedia of frontier biography. University of Nebraska Press. pp. 195. ISBN 0-80329-418-2.
- ^ http://articles.latimes.com/2009/dec/18/entertainment/la-et-autry18-2009dec18 Southwest Museum of the American Indian store is closed, LA Times, December 18, 2009
- ^ http://theautry.org/ Autry National Center
[edit] External links
- Autry National Center - official website
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