Merger of collections and Money

On-again-off-again plans for a merger between the rich Autry Museum for Western Heritage and the impoverished Southwest Museum is on again. “The merger rescues Los Angeles’ oldest museum from a life-threatening financial crisis and brings the Southwest’s 350,000-item inventory, one of the world’s leading collections of Native American art and artifacts, under the same umbrella as the Autry’s $100-million endowment.”