Skid Row History Museum and Archive

Skid Row History Museum and Archive SRHM&A: archive, exhibition, performance and meeting space curated by Los Angeles Poverty Department.

The Skid Row History Museum and Archive is an exhibition /performing arts space curated by LAPD. It foregrounds the distinctive artistic and historical consciousness of Skid Row, a 40-year-old social experiment. The Skid Row History Museum and Archive functions as a means for exploring the mechanics of displacement in an age of immense income inequality, by mining a neighborhood’s activist history

and amplifying effective community strategies. The space operates as an archive, exhibition, performance and meeting space. Exhibitions will focus on grassroots strategies that have preserved the neighborhood from successive threats of gentrification and displacement, to be studied for current adaptation and use. The space will be activated by performances, community meetings and films, addressing gentrification and displacement locally, nationally and globally. About the Los Angeles Poverty Department
Currently celebrating its 31st year, Los Angeles Poverty Department was the first ongoing arts initiative on Skid Row. LAPD creates performances and multidisciplinary artworks that connect the experience of people living in poverty to the social forces that shape their lives and communities. LAPD’s works express the realities, hopes, dreams and rights of people who live and work in L.A.'s Skid Row. LAPD has created projects with communities throughout the US and in The Netherlands, France, Belgium and Bolivia.

You can make a tax deductible donation here to keep the Skid Row History Museum & Archive open and support a new Walk Th...
12/07/2025

You can make a tax deductible donation here to keep the Skid Row History Museum & Archive open and support a new Walk The Talk performance / parade by LA Poverty Department!

yep. we need some help... a lot of it!
12/02/2025

yep. we need some help... a lot of it!

07/06/2025
Thursday 2-6pm
06/18/2025

Thursday 2-6pm

TODAY 5-7pm > The Vagabond Poetry Caravan is coming to the museum at 5pm! time change because of the curfew!!
06/13/2025

TODAY 5-7pm > The Vagabond Poetry Caravan is coming to the museum at 5pm! time change because of the curfew!!

04/20/2025
FREE MOVIE NIGHTS AT THE MUSEUMFriday, December 6, 2024, 7pmScreening: Microplastic MadnessDirector / Producer: Debby Le...
11/27/2024

FREE MOVIE NIGHTS AT THE MUSEUM

Friday, December 6, 2024, 7pm
Screening: Microplastic Madness

Director / Producer: Debby Lee Cohen and Atsuko Quirk
Run Time: 76 min.

Q&A with Atsuko Quirk via zoom

Microplastic Madness is an optimistic take on the local and global plastic pollution crisis as told through a refreshing urban youth point of view with an inspiring take action message.

Fifth graders from PS 15 in Red Hook, Brooklyn spent 2 years investigating plastic pollution. These 10–11-year-olds collect local data, lead community outreach, and take the deep dive into the root causes of plastic pollution, bridging the connection between plastic and climate change. They take action to rid their cafeteria of all single-use plastic, driving forward city-wide action and a scalable, youth-led plastic-free movement.

FREE Movie Screenings, Free popcorn, Free Coffee & Free Conversation

Address

250 S Broadway
Los Angeles, CA
90012

Opening Hours

Monday 10am - 5pm
Tuesday 10am - 5pm
Thursday 10am - 5pm
7pm - 9pm
Friday 10am - 9pm
Saturday 12pm - 5pm
Sunday 2pm - 4pm

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+12134131077

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