Component Three: Design and Installation of an Interpretive Center (The interpretive center is the responsibility of project partner El Pueblo de Los Angeles Historical Monument.)

The interpretive center will be located on the first floor of Sepulveda House. Constructed in 1887, Sepulveda House already houses some historical exhibits and the El Pueblo visitor center, which will move to a different location.

The installation of the interpretive center will require a significant amount of renovation and restoration of these exhibit rooms. In addition, a separate dedicated entrance from Main Street will be created. This entrance will feature site-specific murals, entitled Los Angeles Tropical, by Judith F. Baca and some of her students from the Digital Mural Laboratory at UCLA. These murals are visible at the Web site of the Social and Public Art Resource Center (SPARC).

The América Tropical interpretive center will place the mural into its various contexts—as an important document in the history of Los Angeles, as a monument of the Mexican muralist movement of the 20th century, as a significant influence on mural artists in Los Angeles, and as a political statement on the times in which it was created.