Southwest Museum of the American Indian
Southwest Museum of the American Indian is a museum in California, at a recorded elevation of 170 m. Strawberry Peak stands 1,879 m to the north-northeast, 14 miles off. The nearest named place is Sycamore Grove Park, a park 0.1 miles away. Arroyo Seco Historic Parkway - Route 110 runs past it.
The story
The Southwest Museum of the American Indian was a museum, library, and archive located in the Mt. Washington neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, United States, above the north-western bank of the Arroyo Seco canyon and stream. The museum was owned, and later absorbed by, the Autry Museum of the American West. Its collections dealt mainly with Native Americans. It also had an extensive collection of pre-Hispanic, Spanish colonial, Latino, and Western American art and artifacts. Major collections included American Indians of the Great Plains, American Indians of California, and American Indians of the Northwest Coast. Most of those materials were moved off-site. The Autry and the Southwest Museum hold the second-largest collection of indigenous art and artifacts in the country, second to the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian. The Metro A Line stops down the hill from the museum at the Southwest Museum station. About a block from the A Line stop is an entrance on Museum Drive that opens to a long tunnel formerly filled with dioramas, since removed by the Autry Museum and placed in storage. At the end of the tunnel is an elevator to the museum's lower lobby. The museum closed permanently in September 2022.
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Dates from 1907.
Wikidata Q5414729, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 170 m
How to reach it
- On the Arroyo Seco Historic Parkway - Route 110, National
Overlooks nearby
- Point Grandview · 2 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Sycamore Grove Park: 0.1 mi
- Montecito Heights Recreation Center: 0.3 mi
- Carlin G. Smith Recreation Center: 0.3 mi
- Lummis Park: 0.5 mi
- Greayer's Oak Park: 0.8 mi
- Lummis Home: 0.5 mi
- Perry Mansion: 0.8 mi
- Hale House: 0.9 mi
- Valley Knudsen Garden Residence: 0.9 mi
- Heritage Square: 0.9 mi
- Ernest E. Debs: 0.8 mi
- Flat Point Park: 1.1 mi
- Fiji Hill: 2.0 mi
- Poppy Peak: 2.5 mi
- Adams Hill: 2.6 mi
- Chicken Boy: 0.9 mi
- Chinatown East Gate: 3.0 mi
- Chinatown West Gate: 3.0 mi
- Rosten's House: 3.3 mi
- Chinatown Gateway: 3.5 mi
- Milagro Allegro Community Garden: 0.9 mi
- FEAST: Oxy Student Garden: 2.1 mi
- Marion Harlow Memorial Grove: 2.2 mi
- Solano Canyon Community Garden: 2.3 mi
- South Pasadena Community Garden: 3.1 mi
- Elyria Canyon Park: 1.0 mi
- Rose Hill Park: 1.1 mi
- Ascot Hills Park: 2.1 mi
- Elysian Park: 2.3 mi
- Lower Arroyo Park: 3.4 mi
- hm157: 1.9 mi
- Secret Swing: 1.9 mi
- North Main and Mission: 2.4 mi
- The Century House: 3.0 mi
- Seven Star Cavern Wishing Well: 3.0 mi
- Abraham Lincoln Statue: 2.4 mi
- Angel's Point: 2.7 mi
- On the Same Team: 2.8 mi
- The Baroda Wall: 2.8 mi
- Chinese Celestial Dragon Mural: 3.0 mi
- Sycamore Glen: 1.8 mi
- Cedar Grove: 4.6 mi
- Crystal Springs Picnic Area: 4.6 mi
- Joe Klass Water Stop: 4.7 mi
- Art Center Food Garden: 4.9 mi
- Goldenrod Spring: 14.6 mi
- Fascination Spring: 14.9 mi
- Kuruvungna Springs: 15.0 mi
- Not Much of a Spring: 15.0 mi
- Silk Tassel Spring: 15.2 mi
- Eaton Canyon Waterfall: 8.9 mi
- Mayberg Waterfall: 9.0 mi
- Ribbon Rocks Falls: 9.0 mi
- Millard Falls: 9.0 mi
- Moss Grotto Falls: 9.0 mi
- Mother's Beach: 16.6 mi
- El Segundo Beach: 18.2 mi
- Palisades Beach: 18.4 mi
- Will Rogers State Beach: 20.3 mi
- Castle Rock Beach: 20.9 mi
- Upper Switzer Falls Grotto: 11.2 mi
- Porter Ranch Palisades: 23.3 mi
- Porter Ranch Palisades: 23.7 mi
- Porter Ranch Palisades: 23.9 mi
- Spa Palace: 4.7 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 14.8 miles of Southwest Museum of the American Indian. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Strawberry Peak | NNE 21° | 1,879 m | 13.6 mi |
| San Gabriel Peak | NNE 32° | 1,878 m | 11.6 mi |
| Mount Disappointment | NNE 30° | 1,819 m | 11.6 mi |
| Mount Lawlor | NNE 26° | 1,807 m | 13.1 mi |
| Mount Deception | NNE 27° | 1,767 m | 11.5 mi |
| Mount Markham | NNE 33° | 1,746 m | 11.2 mi |
| Mount Wilson | NE 44° | 1,737 m | 11.9 mi |
| Occidental Peak | NE 37° | 1,736 m | 11.6 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:57 | 18:32 | 19:05 |
| June solstice | 05:43 | 19:31 | 20:08 |
| September equinox | 06:42 | 18:18 | 18:51 |
| December solstice | 06:55 | 16:10 | 16:48 |
Local time (America/Los_Angeles).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: year-round.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 57 | 58 | 61 | 63 | 66 | 71 | 76 | 77 | 76 | 70 | 62 | 56 |
| Precip in | 4.5 | 5.2 | 3.0 | 1.1 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.8 | 1.1 | 3.3 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Pasadena, 5 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikipediaWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/368174641
Day trips start here
- Los Angeles/Eastside · 2 mi
- South Pasadena · 3 mi
- Alhambra · 4 mi
- Los Angeles · 4 mi
- Los Angeles/Downtown · 4 mi
- Los Angeles/Northwest · 4 mi
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