Design and Installation of an Interpretive Center
 

	GCI Director Tim Whalen delivering opening remarks during the ceremony to break ground for the protective shelter, viewing platform, and interpretive center. Photo: Stacey Rain Strickler, J. Paul Getty Trust.

The interpretive center—which is the responsibility of project partner El Pueblo de Los Angeles Historical Monument—will be located on the first floor of Sepulveda House. Constructed in 1887, Sepulveda House already houses historical exhibits and the El Pueblo visitor center, which plans to move to a new location.

The installation of the interpretive center involves refurbishment of the ground floor of the Sepulveda House exhibit space. In addition, a separate dedicated entrance from Main Street will be created. The interpretive center will include a site-specific mural, entitled Los Angeles Tropical, by Judith F. Baca and students from the Digital Mural Laboratory at UCLA. The scheme for the interpretive center is being prepared by Los Angeles Exhibit Design specialists IQMagic.

The exhibits of the interpretive center will explore the mural, América Tropical, in its different contexts—as an important document in the history of Los Angeles, as a monument of the Mexican mural movement of the twentieth century, as a significant influence on mural artists in Los Angeles, and as a political statement on the times in which it was created.

Last updated: September 2010