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[3] [5] [6] In 1968, the museum was renamed for Jean Baptiste Point du Sable, a fur trader of black African ancestry and the first non-Native-American permanent settler in Chicago. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] During the 1960s, the museum and the South Side Community Art Center , which was located across the street, founded in 1941 by Taylor-Burroughs and ...
Jean Baptiste Point du Sable (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ batist pwɛ̃ dy sɑbl]; also spelled Point de Sable, Point au Sable, Point Sable, Pointe DuSable, or Pointe du Sable; [n 1] before 1750 [n 2] – August 28, 1818) is regarded as the first permanent non-Native settler of what would later become Chicago, Illinois, and is recognized as the city's founder. [7]
This list of museums in Los Angeles is a list of museums located within the City of Los Angeles, defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
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MOCA's permanent collection exhibitions show how, when the museum was founded in the late 1970s, it represented something wholly new: the beginning of L.A. art's full-scale institutionalization.
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The Jean Baptiste Point Du Sable Homesite is the location where, around the 1780s, Jean Baptiste Point du Sable located his home and extensive trading post. [2] This home is generally considered to be the first permanent, non-native, residence in Chicago , Illinois. [ 3 ]