The Autry Museum of the American West, the longtime caretaker of the Southwest Museum, will put out a call for proposals for the “revitalization and creative reuse” of L.A.’s oldest museum.
for years. Residents nearby and groups such as Friends of the Southwest Museum Coalition have pushed for the space to reopen as a museum, but the Autry has said the cost of updating the building to 21st century museum standards, not to mention operational expenses, would be prohibitive.
The “Request for Interest” going out Tuesday is a 21-page document offering background on the sites as well as a range of possible uses. It suggests that turning the Southwest Museum into a “multi-use space” might be particularly viable. That could mean a combination of live-work spaces for artists and scholars, art studios and performance spaces, along with revenue-generating businesses such as a cafe, small-scale retail or event spaces.
West added that the ideal candidate or group of candidates would combine “experience as owner-operators, an ethic of community connectiveness in what they’ve done and ultimately, a financial future that is also sustainable.” He said the generation of revenue is important. The Southwest Museum was in debt since the mid-1920s, he said. “That’s always been one of its greatest challenges, and we want to get it past that.
In 2003, the Autry — then called the Autry Western Heritage Museum — assumed ownership and oversight of the Southwest Museum when the organizations merged. The Southwest had more than 400,000 objects, including Native American baskets, beaded jewelry, quilts, ceramics and works on paper, among other materials relating to the American Southwest, plus books, photographs, posters, maps and other ephemera from the museum’s Braun Research Library.
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