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The Autry Museum of the American West (Autry National Center) is a museum in Los Angeles, California, dedicated to exploring an inclusive history of the American West. Founded in 1988, the museum presents a wide range of exhibitions and public programs, including lectures, film, theater, festivals, family events, and music, and performs ...
The Autry Museum of the American West's new $32-million Resources Center takes a big step toward healing relations with Native tribes. L.A.'s Autry Museum spent 18 years moving 400,000 Native objects.
San Bernardino, California, US. Spouse. Mary Beth Braden. Children. 2. Walter Richard "Rick" West Jr. (born January 6, 1943) is the president and CEO of the Autry Museum of the American West in Los Angeles. [ 1] He was the founding director of the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, [ 2] retiring from the position in 2007.
Gene Autry. Orvon Grover " Gene " Autry[ 2] (September 29, 1907 – October 2, 1998), [ 3] nicknamed the Singing Cowboy, was an American actor, musician, singer, composer, rodeo performer, and baseball team owner, who largely gained fame by singing in a crooning style on radio, in films, and on television for more than three decades, beginning ...
The former Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation chairman helped transition the Autry from 'cowboy museum' to one more representative of the diversity of the West Marshall McKay, Indigenous leader who helped ...
American Progress is an 1872 painting by John Gast, a Prussian -born painter, printer, and lithographer who lived and worked most of his life during 1870s Brooklyn, New York. American Progress, an allegory of manifest destiny, was widely disseminated in chromolithographic prints. It is now held by the Autry Museum of the American West in Los ...
Funding from this foundation provided the funds to build a world class western history museum contiguous to the Los Angeles Zoo. The 148,000 sq ft (13,700 m 2) museum, now called the Autry National Center, houses the Museum of the American West, the Southwest Museum of the American Indian, and the Institute for the Study of the American West ...
The one-day free-admission event features more than 30 museums across Southern California and covers a gamut of artistic interests.