About the Autry National Center

The Autry National Center is an intercultural history center formed from the merger of three important museums: the Southwest Museum of the American Indian, the Museum of the American West (formerly the Autry Museum of Western Heritage), and the Women of the West Museum.

The Autry National Center presents a wide variety of programs and events throughout the year for our visitors and members on diverse arts and cultures of the American West.

The Southwest Museum of the American Indian, the Museum of the American West, and the Institute for the Study of the American West are the three public entities that enable the Autry National Center to use different lenses, curatorial specialization, and distinctive lines of intellectual inquiry to delve into the multifaceted study of the American West.

Library and Research Services includes the Autry Library and Braun Research Library and provides researchers with access to the marvelous collections of the Autry National Center .

Publications and Scholarship edits the books produced by the Autry National Center, as well as our new magazine, Convergence. This department also develops links between the Autry and academia, as exemplified by the presence of Professor Virginia Scharff, who holds our Women of the West Chair.

Programs assembles the astonishing variety of lectures, workshops, symposia, plays, concerts, film series, artist demonstrations, and family festivals that augment the exhibitions and galleries of the Museum of the American West and the Southwest Museum of the American Indian.

Together, the three departments make the Institute a unique entity that stimulates exciting scholarship and disseminates it to a broad audience.