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This tour makes the following stops:
Union Station
Chinatown Station
Southwest Museum Station
Del Mar Station

Southwest Museum Station (Metro Gold Line)

Exit the Southwest Museum Station and proceed up Museum Drive to the Southwest Museum

The Southwest Museum (234 Museum Drive; 323 / 221-2164) holds one of the nation's most important museum, library, and archive collections related to the American Indian. In addition it has extensive holdings of Prehispanic, Spanish Colonial, Latino, and Western American art and artifacts. For eighty years it has supported research, publications, exhibitions, and other educational activities to advance the public's understanding and appreciation of the Americas, with particular emphasis on the Western United States and Mesoamerica.
The collections of the Southwest Museum represent Native American cultures from Alaska to South America. The museum contains some of the finest examples of Indian art and artifacts in the United States. Beyond this primary emphasis, the Southwest Museum holds important collections of Mesoamerican and South American pre-Columbian pottery and textiles, and Hispanic folk and decorative arts.

Stop by the Casa de Adobe, located directly below the Southwest Museum, was competed in 1918 by the Hispanic Society of California and donated to the Museum in 1925. Modeled after the Rancho Guajome, a pre-1850s Spanish California rancho, the Casa was designed by the office of architect Theodore Eisen and constructed in the tradition manner by local adobe craftsmen. It comprises a series of rooms surrounding a central patio.

Plan to bring a picnic lunch and enjoy the afternoon at Sycamore Grove Park ( 4702 N. Figueroa; 323/256-7721) the nearest of the many parks along the Arroyo Seco. In the shade of the sycamores are many picnic tables and lots of room to play.

Return to the Southwest Museum Gold Line Station and continue on your way to the Del Mar Station.

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