Event Spotlight
Riding With Reagan: A Conversation With John Barletta
Saturday, April 26, 1–2 pm
Secret Service agent and author of Riding With Reagan, John Barletta joins us for an intimate look at his travels around the world, and his shared love of the outdoors and horse-riding and his close friendship with President Reagan. Followed by a book signing.
Free with museum admission.
Autry Inside Out
Members, neighbors, and friends were invited to a special open house at the Autry National Center. Autry “Inside Out†provided visitors a chance to preview the new and exciting architectural designs for the Autry National Center in Griffith Park.
Visitors were able to:
• See the building model.
• Look at architectural and gallery plans.
• Discuss the vision with Autry staff.
• Meet Design Architect Brenda Levin.
• Enjoy a gallery tour.
• Take an outdoor walking tour of architectural and landscape plans.
Thank you for joining us on this special day and share in our excitement about the future.
Detailed information on the schedule of events can be found at www.autrynationalcenter.org/anewplan
About the Autry National Center
The Autry National Center is an intercultural history center formed from the merger of three important museums: the Southwest Museum of the American Indian, the Museum of the American West (formerly the Autry Museum of Western Heritage), and the Women of the West Museum.
The Autry National Center presents a wide variety of programs and events throughout the year for our visitors and members on diverse arts and cultures of the American West.
The Southwest Museum of the American Indian, the Museum of the American West, and the Institute for the Study of the American West are the three public entities that enable the Autry National Center to use different lenses, curatorial specialization, and distinctive lines of intellectual inquiry to delve into the multifaceted study of the American West.
Institute for the Study of the American West
Historia de la Conquesta de Mexico, by Francisco Lopez de Gomara, 1554, with the first depiction of a bison. Braun Research Library, Autry National Center.The Institute consists of three departments:
Library and Research Services includes the Autry Library and Braun Research Library and provides researchers with access to the marvelous collections of the Autry National Center .
Publications and Scholarship edits the books produced by the Autry National Center, as well as our new magazine, Convergence. This department also develops links between the Autry and academia, as exemplified by the presence of Professor Virginia Scharff, who holds our Women of the West Chair.
Programs assembles the astonishing variety of lectures, workshops, symposia, plays, concerts, film series, artist demonstrations, and family festivals that augment the exhibitions and galleries of the Museum of the American West and the Southwest Museum of the American Indian.
Together, the three departments make the Institute a unique entity that stimulates exciting scholarship and disseminates it to a broad audience.
Stephen AronExecutive Director
Institute for the Study of the American West