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The Autry Institute The Autry Institute promotes research and educational activities, encourages the development of pathbreaking scholarship, and reaches a broad audience through programs and publications. Libraries and Archives of the Autry Women of the West The Women of the West project at the Autry supports programs, exhibitions, collections, research, and education dedicated to diverse...

Museum founder Charles Fletcher Lummis (1859-1928) came to L.A. from Ohio the old-fashioned way: he walked! Articles he wrote about the walk so impressed Harrison Gray Otis of the L.A. Times that Otis hired him as city editor soon after he arrived.

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Here, you'll find a rich, historic building housing an unsurpassed collection of early American Indian artifacts. The museum was founded in 1907, but the collections date back...

The Autry is a museum dedicated to bringing together the stories of all peoples of the American West, connecting the past with the present to inspire our shared future. The museum presents a wide range of exhibitions and public programs, including lectures, film, theater, festivals, family events, and music, and performs scholarship, research, and educational outreach.

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...

Offering extensive holdings of Prehispanic, Spanish Colonial, Latino and Western Art and artifacts, this is one of the nation's most important museum and archive collections related to the American Indian.