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
La Raza
Sep 16 2017 - Feb 10 2019
Explores photography’s role in articulating the social and political concerns of the Chicano Movement
Rick Bartow: Things You Know But Cannot Explain, a Retrospective Exhibition
May 12 2018 - Jan 6 2019
Retrospective of 40 years of painting, drawing, sculpting, and print-making
Out of the Ashes: Snapshots of the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake
- Jun 9 2019
Images made and circulated in the aftermath of the disaster
The Life and Work of Mabel McKay
- Sep 30 2018
Dedicated to a modern day Native American woman who maintained her people's traditional ways
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