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Adult Education
Programs & Activities
Gold Rush
Museum of the American West
Saturdays and Sundays between 11 am and 1 pm
Free with Museum Admission
Become a 49er-a gold miner, that is. Tens of thousands of people came to California hoping to find gold. Some struck it rich; but many had their hopes crushed. Now it’s your turn to pan for gold, just like the miners did. What will you find? Click here  to view a short video clip.
Western History Workshops
Museum of the American West
Classes run one Thursday a month, 6:30 to 9:30 p.m., from September to May. Please call for dates, times and topics.
All workshops are free
Join us for this series of stimulating scholarly seminars where you have the opportunity to review a scholar’s paper and then meet with them to discuss their ideas and work. The workshop runs throughout the fall and spring; topics and scholars rotate monthly. Papers are distributed by e-mail two weeks prior to each seminar. To RSVP and receive a copy of the monthly paper, please e-mail bnakasato@autrynationalcenter.org.
Talks & Tours
Group Tours
Museum of the American West
This tour introduces the permanent galleries at the Museum of the American West. Docents use hands-on carts and teaching replicas to explore western lands, cowboys, popular culture, changes and transformations of the West after the Civil War, and the diverse communities of people that shaped the American West in the late 19th century.
Call the Group Visit Coordinator at 323.667.2000 x336 to book your visit.
NEW! Autry Audio Tours 
Museum of the American West
Free to Autry National Center Members
$3 for non-members
The Autry National Center is offering adults and children a whole new way to explore our galleries with audio tours. Visitors can choose the artifacts or works of art you want to learn more about and hear brief presentations, with quotes, music and sound effects to inspire a closer look. Families will find specially created scripts to help them talk about what they see, think about key moments in time and learn about the history of the American West.
Photo: Tony Bailey.
Have a portable MP3 player? Download the Autry audio tours here as podcasts:
Public Tours
Museum of the American West
Saturdays, 11, 12,1:30 and 2:30 pm
Free with museum admission
These engaging gallery talks are designed for families and adults. Docents offer information on the historical and cultural importance of objects in the collection and have hands-on collections available. Each tour lasts around 1 hour.
Take a tour through current and past exhibits at the Museum of the American West. Click on any of the titles to explore gallery guides.
Luis Ortega’s Rawhide Artistry: Braiding in the California Tradition 
April 3 to July 4, 2005
Drawn to Yellowstone: Artists in America’s First National Park
September 4, 2004 to January 23, 2005
George Catlin and His Indian Gallery
May 9 to August 4, 2004
Glorious Treasures: 100 Years of Collecting by the Southwest Museum
October 11, 2003 to July 4, 2004
Art of the Charreria
May 5 to September 29, 2002
How the West Was Worn
October 20, 2001 to January 21, 2002
Explore a new tool available to you and your students. Collections Online has more than 17,000 records—including more than 14,000 images—from the Museum of the American West’s artifact collections, and more than 40,000 records from our library databases. Images from the Southwest Museum of the American Indian are being added daily.
Explore the Learn More section to learn about some of the themes explored in our galleries. And don’t forget to click on the object name to see the full records, where you will find subject links to other records within the database.
You can customize the Collection Online by going to Log On My Favorites. Here you can save your images and gain access to them whenever you want. No need to research the database every time you log on.
New records and images are added every month, so check back for more! Go to autrynationalcenter.org/collections.
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