Southwest Museum of the American Indian in Los Angeles

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  Jennifer Gaillard

  :: 19 May 2018 12:10:57

  Beautiful location and historic charm for Los Angeles' first museum. It used to be a fantastic display of native american artifacts and culture. Now, it has a very limited amount of items on display due to structural issues and the Autry not being true to what they envisioned for the museum. It is now only open on weekends. Pay a visit to support this relic and encourage the Autry to give back to the community it robbed years ago.

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  Francisco Saldivar

  :: 01 March 2018 16:35:00

  Nice using the tunnel, many rooms under construction. The garden looks like it's been forgotten.

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  Stephen Collins

  :: 30 January 2018 16:49:49

  Seems to be in decline. Lot of closed sections or empty rooms. A few small exhibits. Beautiful building on an incredible lot with a fun but a bit scary long tunnel entrance from Museum Dr. Friendly staff and a good pottery collection. Glad I stopped in but probably won't be heading back. Also, that's a "dorsal fin" from a killer whale in my totem pole picture.

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  Sergio De LA Torre

  :: 14 January 2018 15:26:52

  This place totally changed for the worse. It use to be so nice to stop by this location. Now its different and nearly gone. I'm not so sure that this place was saved or preserved. From a cultural perspective it was needed as an anchor to show where we have progressed to as humans and specifically in this region of Los Angeles. Highland Park always and will be ghetto. It's in the neighborhood that honestly has nothing high-end and still is ugly. You see changes being done throughout the neighborhood but in reality it is doing nothing. Streets are still dumped and consumed in graffiti drugs and homeless people no matter how hard the authorities may try to reduce the appearance of morbidness in the streets of Highland Park. North East Los Angeles has a reputation and has been constant keeping it. You still find out about horrible events here that could bring anyone down. Consumed by sadness that follows with countless tear drops. Highland Park can't and won't be messed with. I grew up in these streets and you find out about the truths that many don't want to know about but they matter. It's always good to know what's going on around your surroundings. This museum was closed to make it a storage. The Autry museum now own the main artifacts. The location should be well intact with the artifacts. It makes sense to keep the artifacts at home. This Southwest museum needed to be saved. Very few stood up when they needed to speak up and to be heard, but Highland Park and the Latinos will prevail. -Sergio Antonio De La Torre

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  Anna Young

  :: 30 September 2017 17:59:12

  Sad. Expecting much more. Old film, pedestrian entrance scary for One person, 1 exhibit room on pottery, real shame to people who are interested in learning