With the opening of the Museum in 1988, co-founder Gene Autry realized his dream "to build a museum which would exhibit and interpret the heritage of the West." The collection of more than 500,000 pieces of art and artifacts combines multiple Native American perspectives with Western histories and cultures.
Nearly 20,000 square feet of renovated visitor spaces are scheduled to open to the public in October 2016.
Exhibitions & Dates
Masters of the American West®
Feb 9 2019 - Mar 24 2019
Works inspired by contemporary, historic, and mythic Western experiences
Out of the Ashes: Snapshots of the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake
- Jun 9 2019
Images made and circulated in the aftermath of the disaster
On Fire: Transcendent Landscapes by Michael Scott
Sep 15 2018 - Jul 28 2019
New works explore the fine line between the physical and the phenomenal