Mission Statement: The FIDM Museum & Galleries provides students, researchers, designers, and the public with resources to examine the role of historic fashion, accessories, textiles, jewelry, fragrance, and related ephemera in their relationship to society, history, and technology. The collections are sustained by standard museum practices for continued acquisition, preservation, and display.…

Our archives go back to the early 20th century, and we have a rich collection of photographs, image slides, pamphlets, newspaper clippings, and films that document the development of Forest Lawn Memorial-Park organization, Glendale, and greater Southern California region throughout the 1900s. These collections detail geographic and cultural changes of Southern California.

The Fowler’s collections comprise more than 120,000 art and ethnographic and 600,000 archaeological objects representing ancient, traditional, and contemporary cultures of Africa, Native and Latin America, and Asia and the Pacific. From Yoruba beaded arts of Southern Nigeria, to pre-Columbian ceramic vessels of Peru, to elaborate batik textiles of Indonesia and the vibrant papier-mâché sculptures…

Friends of Greystone's archive mission is to collect, preserve and exhibit material that documents the history of the Doheny Greystone Estate and the Doheny family. Materials in our collection consist of a rich and expanding historic photo archive of the property, family and The Knoll, the subsequent home of Lucy Doheny Battson. The archive collection also includes family portraits, magazine…

The collection includes photographs of the Rockhaven Sanitarium property as well as some of the residents and employees from over the decades. Also includes written memories from people who worked there or had relatives cared for at the Sanitarium.