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In 2003, the financially teetering museum was absorbed by the Autry Museum, which designated it as its Mt. Washington Campus. The museum ceased operating full-time, and closed entirely in September 2022. The museum's collections were relocated to a new controlled environment facility, which opened in
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and the City of Los Angeles to develop a long-term plan for the site. On January 22, 2015, the Southwest Museum was designated a National Treasure by the National Trust for Historic Preservation. In March 2019, the Autry and the National Trust published a Request for Interest for the revitalization
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In 1993, Patrick Houlihan, the director of the museum from 1981 to 1987, was convicted on five counts of embezzlement and two counts of grand theft for selling or trading about 20 items from the museum's collection. In a civil lawsuit, the museum alleged that Houlihan took 127 items worth an
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and reuse of the historic Southwest Museum campus and Casa de Adobe. As of November 2022, the Autry is no longer seeking to renovate the building for use as a museum space, which would cost over $ 100 million, and is instead looking to sell the building.
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Following years of controversy with the Friends of the Southwest Museum and other local community organizations, the Autry began a partnership with the
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Image of two Indigenous protesters talking to Dr. Carl Dentzel, director of Southwest Museum about display in Los Angeles, California, 1970.
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Los Angeles Times Photographic Archive (Collection 1429). UCLA Library Special Collections,
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canyon and stream. The museum was owned, and later absorbed by, the
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Former museum, library, and archive in Los Angeles, California
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in 1908, and finally to the Mt. Washington site in 1914.
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Southwest Museum

Los Angeles
Coordinates
34°06′01″N 118°12′21″W / 34.1004°N 118.2059°W / 34.1004; -118.2059
Charles Fletcher Lummis
Sumner Hunt
A Line
Southwest Museum
theautry.org/visit/mt-washington-campus
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument
Mission/Spanish Revival
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Mt. Washington
Los Angeles
Arroyo Seco
Autry Museum of the American West
Native Americans
Hispanic
Spanish colonial
Latino
Western American
American Indians of the Great Plains
American Indians of California
American Indians of the Northwest Coast
Smithsonian's
National Museum of the American Indian
Metro A Line
Southwest Museum station

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