BACK ON THE BLOCK BURBANK MUSEUM NOW BIGGER, BETTER.Byline: Alex Dobuzinskis Staff Writer BURBANK - The Burbank Historical Society museum has reopened after a nine-month, $600,000 expansion with a display of American Indian American Indian or Native American or Amerindian or indigenous American Any member of the various aboriginal peoples of the Western Hemisphere, with the exception of the Eskimos (Inuit) and the Aleuts. artifacts artifacts see specimen artifacts. , as well as new exhibits from Disney and Warner Bros BROS Brothers BROS Benefits and Retirement Operations Section (King County, Washington) BROS Barnes and Richmond Operatic Society (London, UK) . The museum, which is just off George Izay Park at 1015 W. Olive Ave., gained 7,000 square feet of space, and now features a showroom for its antique vehicles and a meeting room on the level above. The new meeting room gives the museum room to display American Indian artifacts that had been in storage for more than a year. A pair of buckskin buckskin body coat color in horses, varies from yellow to almost brown; the points, including mane, tail, lower limbs are brown to black. pants from the 1880s, moccasins, ceremonial war clubs, pipes and a beaded turtle amulet amulet (ăm`yəlĭt), object or formula that credulity and superstition have endowed with the power of warding off harmful influences. are among the items, most of which were made at the end of the 19th century. ``A lot of it was made for tourists'' who came to Southern California Southern California, also colloquially known as SoCal, is the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. Centered on the cities of Los Angeles and San Diego, Southern California is home to nearly 24 million people and is the nation's second most populated region, at the time and bought the items from the natives, said Mary Jane Strickland, founder of the Burbank Historical Society. Burbank's two main movie studios, Disney and Warner Bros., also have new displays at the museum. One display has drawings from the 1940s showing that long before Walt Disney opened Disneyland in Anaheim he was considering building a park in Burbank near his production studio. Burbank residents opposed the idea. ``It just had the Rancho people up in arms because of their horse trails and stuff,'' Strickland said. But there was not much more than 10 acres of land where the park was being envisioned at Buena Vista Street and Riverside Drive and that was not enough. When Disneyland opened in Anaheim in 1955, it had 85 acres. Warner Bros. has loaned the museum the Batman costume George Clooney wore in the 1997 movie ``Batman & Robin,'' Uma Thurman's Poison Ivy poison ivy, poison oak, and poison sumac, woody vines and trailing or erect shrubs of the family Anacardiaceae (sumac family), native to North America. costume from the movie and the costumes Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland Olivia Mary de Havilland (born July 1, 1916) is a two-time Academy Award winning actress and is the last surviving principal cast member from Gone with the Wind. She is the sister of Academy Award winning actress Joan Fontaine. wore in the 1942 picture ``They Died With Their Boots On.'' The new addition to the museum was built on land that previously had been an open patio, Strickland said. The money for the project was raised from private donors. ``Some people wouldn't recognize it - the whole building looks different,'' said Maggie Thomas, a vice president of the Burbank Historical Society. The museum is closed during the week, except on appointment for groups of 10 or more. Starting this weekend, the museum will be open Saturdays and Sundays from 1 to 4 p.m. Alex Dobuzinskis, (818) 546-3304 alex.dobuzinskis(at)dailynews.com CAPTION(S): 2 photos Photo: (1) Vintage automobiles now have their own showroom at the newly expanded Burbank Historical Society museum. (2) Mannequins in vintage military uniforms stand guard near the Lockheed exhibit at the expanded museum complex. John McCoy/Staff Photographer |
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