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LAUSD Museum opens doors to commemorate first arts festival

LA School Report | March 10, 2014



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The LAUSD’s Art and Artifact museum will open to the public for the first time at 1 p.m. tomorrow. The museum is making its debut in honor of the LAUSD Arts Fest, which ends Sat., March 15 with a day-long celebration of student excellence at Grand Park in downtown Los Angeles.

Vintage artifacts, such as old typewriters, inkwells, desks, rare Roman coins, old textbooks, impressionist paintings and many other curios will on display, providing a peek into the lives of Angelenos then and now. The entire collection consists of 30,000 visual resources and historical artifacts that reflect how relations evolved among the school district, students and community.

Museum visitors can take a self-guided tour at the exhibit location at 333 S. Beaudry Ave.

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