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USC Pacific Asia Museum is an Asian art museum located at 46 N. Los Robles Avenue, Pasadena, California, United States.. The museum was founded in 1971 by the Pacificulture Foundation, which purchased "The Grace Nicholson Treasure House of Oriental Art" from the City of Pasadena.
Another large collection of items purchased from Nicholson was bequeathed to the Montclair Art Museum in New Jersey, by Florence Rand Osgood Lang. [30] A Grace Nicholson scholarship for women students who demonstrate artistic talent was established at Scripps College in 1951.
Interior during an exhibition basketball game against Cal Poly Pomona. USC had planned to build an on-campus indoor arena for more than 100 years. Before the Galen Center, USC basketball had been played at a variety of locations, including the neighboring Shrine Auditorium stage, the old Pan-Pacific Auditorium in the Fairfax District, and from 1959 onward at the Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena.
Asia and Pacific Museum: Poland Warsaw Asian Art Museum of San Francisco: United States San Francisco, California 18,000 [6] Asian Civilisations Museum: Singapore Belz Museum of Asian and Judaic Art: United States Memphis, Tennessee 1,000 [7] Birmingham Museum of Art: United States Birmingham, Alabama 4,000 [8] British Museum: United Kingdom ...
The Lilly family are the founders of Heritage Museums and Gardens, which held a press conference Wednesday announcing a donation from Peter and Pamela Barbey to be used for a new welcome center.
The area was also an artistic center, the home to Andy Warhol's West Coast museum debut and the first Marcel Duchamp retrospective, both at the Pasadena Art Museum (one of the earliest modern art museums in the country, now the Norton Simon Museum). Before that, Pasadena was a center of suffragist and pacifist movements and other liberal causes.
USC's 22 libraries and other archives currently hold over 5.8 million printed volumes, 1.3 million ebooks, 3 million photographs, and subscribe to more than 30,000 current serial titles, nearly 44,000 linear feet of manuscripts and archives, and subscribe to over 120 electronic databases and more than 14,000 journals in print and electronic ...
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