Southwest Museum of the American Indian
- Architect
- Sumner Hunt
- Year
- 1907
- City
- Los Angeles, CA
Opened in 1907 above the Arroyo Seco in the Mount Washington hills, the Southwest Museum of the American Indian was designed by architect Sumner Hunt to house a major collection of Native American art and artifacts, along with pre-Hispanic, Spanish colonial, Latino, and Western American material. Later absorbed by the Autry Museum, its holdings rank second in the country only to the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian.
the building
Tunnel to the lower lobby. About a block from the Metro A Line's Southwest Museum station, an entrance on Museum Drive opens onto a long tunnel that once displayed dioramas — since removed to storage by the Autry Museum — leading to an elevator up into the museum's lower lobby.
significance
The building is a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and carries a National Treasure designation.
nearby
- Ziegler Estate
- Mount Pleasant House
- Masonic Temple (Highland Park)
- Richard Henry Dana Branch
- Smith Estate
- Lincoln Heights Branch Library