The Autry Museum’s Resources Center is a state-of-the-art collections stewardship, educational, and research facility located in Burbank to protect and preserve the Autry’s extensive collections, including those once housed at the historic Southwest Museum. Designed by Chu—Gooding Architects, the LEED certified (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) building includes a reading room, tribal community spaces and collections care rooms. Landscaping and ceremonial gardens were designed by Costello Kennedy Landscape Architecture, with active input from Southern California Native community members. 

At the Resources Center, Native community members, researchers, students, teachers, and artists can access the more than 600,000 cultural objects, materials, artworks, and archives cared for by the Autry Museum. 

In addition to housing the collection, the Resources Center is a space meant to serve as a conduit for collaboration with Native communities, who see the important items stored there as living objects imbued with the spirits of their Ancestors. 

For more information about the collections and access, please see the Research & Collections pages