Antelope Valley Indian Museum

Date

October 17

Time

11:00 am - 4:00 pm

Cost

Adults $3 (age 13 and over); children 12 and under free

Event Series Dates

Saturdays and Sundays

Event Schedule

October 2026

  • Saturday 17th 11:00 AM
  • Sunday 18th 11:00 AM
  • Saturday 24th 11:00 AM
  • Sunday 25th 11:00 AM
  • Saturday 31st 11:00 AM

November 2026

  • Sunday 1st 11:00 AM
  • Saturday 7th 11:00 AM
  • Sunday 8th 11:00 AM
  • Saturday 14th 11:00 AM
  • Sunday 15th 11:00 AM
  • Saturday 21st 11:00 AM
  • Sunday 22nd 11:00 AM
  • Saturday 28th 11:00 AM
  • Sunday 29th 11:00 AM

December 2026

  • Saturday 5th 11:00 AM
  • Sunday 6th 11:00 AM
  • Saturday 12th 11:00 AM
  • Sunday 13th 11:00 AM
  • Saturday 19th 11:00 AM
  • Sunday 20th 11:00 AM

This regional museum displays exhibits representing Native American cultures from the Antelope Valley, California coast, Great Basin, and the Southwest, housed in a chalet-style structure built in 1928 over a rock formation at Piute Butte in the Mojave Desert. The museum contains the combined collections of founder Howard Arden Edwards and subsequent owner Grace Oliver, with a number of rare or one-of-a-kind cultural objects on display. Guided group tours are also available on Thursdays with a reservation, and the museum holds additional special events throughout the year.

Upcoming Events

October 8 @ 11:00 am - 4:00 pm -
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$0.00 - $7.00

Hollyhock House Tours

Experience the interior of Hollyhock House at your own pace with a self-guided tour. Docents are on hand to provide information and answer questions.

October 7 @ 10:00 am - 4:00 pm -
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Free

Shifting Perspectives: Cheech Collects

Over the past year and a half, artists and collectors have donated 80 works by almost 35 artists to The Cheech Center Collection. This year's exhibition will highlight some new additions alongside works from Cheech Marin's initial gift of 500 works. The latest exhibition, Cheech Collects, explores different forms within the Cheech Marin Collection. It introduces photography and sculpture alongside paintings, prints, and mixed media works for which the collection is celebrated. See website for ticket prices.

October 10 @ 12:00 pm - 5:00 pm -
See event website.

Construction, Occupation

Construction, Occupation presents the work of 24 artists and collectives that engage art’s potential to shape the city through the power of community. Drawing on myriad visual languages and poetics grounded in collective action, the exhibition investigates a radical urban vocabulary that blurs art and activism to address questions of infrastructure and vulnerability, circulation and segregation, and the body in public

October 7 @ 10:00 am - 4:00 pm -
$0.00 - $19.00

BEHIND BARS: INCARCERATION IN THE WEST

This installation features some of the many forms that incarceration has taken in the American West over time, in conversation with a new photo series by fine art photographer Pep Williams, taken in a California state prison. Located in the jail cell area of the Autry’s firearms galleries, the installation brings past and present into dialogue.

October 11 @ 12:00 pm - 5:00 pm -
$0.00 - $15.95

Bernard Hoyes: Out from Under the Net

Presenting the evolution of Bernard Hoyes’ signature Rag Series, developed during the 1970s and expanded through collage, painting, and printmaking. His rhythmic compositions reflect Afro-Caribbean spirituality, rituals, and the power of women across music, dance, and magic. The works explore themes of race, identity, memory, and liberation through layered visual language.