Southwest Museum of the American Indian

Historic Southwest Museum Mt. Washington Campus

Museum building as seen from Sycamore Grove Park
Former name	Southwest Museum of the American Indian
Established	1907 (1907)
Dissolved	2022 (2022)
Location	234 Museum Drive Los Angeles, California
Coordinates	34°06′01″N 118°12′21″W / 34.1004°N 118.2059°W / 34.1004; -118.2059
Founder	Charles Fletcher Lummis
Architect	Sumner Hunt
Public transit access	Southwest Museum
Website	theautry.org/visit/mt-washington-campus
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument No. 283
Built	1912–1914
Architectural style	Mission/Spanish Revival
NRHP reference No.	92001270
LAHCM No.	283
Significant dates
Added to NRHP	March 11, 2004
Designated LAHCM	August 29, 1984

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.^[1] 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.^[2]

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.