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LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes

LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes
Plaza House and Vickrey-Brunswig Building.
Plaza House and Vickrey-Brunswig Building.
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EstablishedApril 2011 (2011-04)
Location501 North Main Street
Coordinates34°03′22″N 118°14′24″W / 34.056164°N 118.240008°W / 34.056164; -118.240008
CEOLeticia Rhi Buckley
Public transit accessUnion Station
Websitelapca.org

LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes, also called LA Plaza is a Mexican-American museum and cultural center in Los Angeles, California, USA that opened in April 2011.[1] The museum contains interactive exhibits designed by experience design expert Tali Krakowsky such as a reconstruction of a 1920s Main Street.[2] The museum shares the stories of the history, cultures, values, and traditions of Mexicans, Mexican Americans, and all Latinos in Los Angeles and Southern California. The museum programs include exhibitions, educational programs, and public programming.

The museum is near Olvera Street in the El Pueblo de Los Angeles Historic District, also called El Pueblo. It is next to La Iglesia de Nuestra Señora Reina de los Angeles, also called La Placita or Plaza Church.[3][4] The buildings are from the 1880s, some of the oldest in the city, the Vickrey-Brunswig Building and the Plaza House (1883).

It is owned by Los Angeles County which also owns Los Angeles County Museum of Art and others.[4] For a time after its founding, LA Plaza struggled with financial problems; Donations and grants were expected to surpass $3.5 million in 2017.[5]

A walkway is used to display large outdoors sculptures.[6]

  1. ^ Boehm, Mike (October 5, 2011). "La Plaza is an open and empty space downtown". Los Angeles Times.
  2. ^ Walker, Alissa (April 28, 2011). "A New Cultural Center Brings Mexican American Voices to L.A.'s Birthplace". Good. Retrieved April 29, 2011.
  3. ^ Tobar, Hector (April 1, 2011). "An apology comes too late; Mishandling of buried remains mars Molina's dream museum". Los Angeles Times. p. A2. Retrieved April 29, 2011.
  4. ^ a b Johnson, Reed (April 11, 2011). "New focus for Latino culture". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved April 29, 2011.
  5. ^ Bermudez, Esmeralda (July 15, 2017). "L.A.'s Mexican American cultural center begins to blossom after a rocky start". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved November 16, 2018.
  6. ^ Chiotakis, Steve (February 19, 2020). "Traveling down the newest historic walkway in downtown LA | Greater LA". KCRW. Retrieved March 3, 2020.

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