Los Angeles Craft & Folk Art Museum

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Information for Authority record

Name (Latin)
Los Angeles Craft & Folk Art Museum
Other forms of name
Los Angeles Craft and Folk Art Museum
Craft and Folk Art Museum (Los Angeles)
Craft & Folk Art Museum
Los Angeles. Craft and Folk Art Museum
C.A.F.A.M. (Craft and Folk Art Museum (Los Angeles))
CAFAM (Craft and Folk Art Museum (Los Angeles))
Type of corporate body
Museums
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

VIAF: 132157556
Wikidata: Q5180539
Library of congress: nr 00003864
Sources of Information
  • Email corresp. from J. Benedetti, former CAFAM librarian, Apr. 23, 2003(museum reverting to "Craft & Folk Art Museum" [though web page still shows mixed forms])
  • Email corresp. from Joan Benedetti, former CAFAM Librarian, Feb. 4, 2000(Craft and Folk Art Museum, closed temporarily at end of 1997, reopened in early 1999 in its original location at 5814 Wilshire Blvd. as the Los Angeles Craft and Folk Art Museum, under the administration of the Folk and Traditional Arts Division of the City of Los Angeles, Cultural Affairs Department)
  • Los Angeles County Museum of Art WWW home page, Apr. 23, 2003:libraries/research (Craft and Folk Art Museum was founded in 1973 by Edith R. Wyle, director 1973-1985; predecessor was The Egg and The Eye Gallery, opened in 1965; CAFAM library given to LACMA in 1997 when CAFAM closed temporarily in 1997)
  • Los Angeles Craft & Folk Art Museum WWW web page, Feb. 4, 2000(Los Angeles Craft & Folk Art Museum; Craft & Folk Art Museum; CAFAM; Folk and Traditional Arts Division of Cultural Affairs merged in Dec. 1998 with Los Angeles Craft and Folk Art Museum; partnership)