Build It: Los Angeles and Its Musems (Haynes Foundation Lecture)
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Museums preserve and display our cultural heritage. Los Angeles built its own museums in a relatively short period of time. Robert C. Ritchie, the W. M. Keck Foundation Director of Research at The Huntington, examines the causes and consequences of this creative outburst.
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