PETERSEN AUTOMOTIVE MUSEUM FOUNDATION
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Mission Statement
The mission of the Petersen Automotive Museum is to present the history of the automobile and its global impact on life and culture using Los Angeles as the prime example. The museum builds community and facilitates life-long learning and growth by being a resource for local schools, institutions, and groups.
About This Cause
The mission of The Petersen Automotive Museum is to present the history of the automobile and its impact on global life and culture using Los Angeles as the prime example. Far more than just a car museum, the Petersen is an iconic testimony to diversity, human history, and the tapestry of Los Angeles culture, race, ethnicity, poverty, affluence, and identity over the past 100 years. With such a long-ranging lens, the Petersen has had an exceptional view of the obstacles that Southern California individuals and communities have faced over that historical period. For 25 years, the museum’s mission and programs have sought to reduce educational and cultural inequity for underserved youth, while raising the visibility of chronically de-emphasized communities and cultures. Because access to education is critical to academic success, job opportunity, and one’s fundamental experience of life, museum educational programs target vulnerable school-aged children, teenagers in need of job skills, and older adults. The Museum strives to cultivate arts access, educational inclusion, workforce opportunity, and intercommunity connectedness for the disadvantaged communities that could most benefit from it. The Petersen’s educational programs primarily serve Title 1 schools in the South and Southeast Los Angeles LAUSD. While everyone knows the cyclical and generational economic and educational barriers that this region and district faces, the most recent snapshot shows growing disparities. The Center for Research on the Education of Students Placed at Risk has identified multiple risks that are unique to students from poor and minority families, all of which contribute to the rampant inequities in educational access for students in Exposition Park as opposed to students in Studio City. Even when schools offer some arts education, impoverished schools often fail to address the needs of poor, multi-cultural, ELL, migrant, and/or geographically disadvantaged students. The Petersen is devoted to providing educational opportunities that accommodate for the varied needs of diverse learners. Through such inclusive programming as the two-year K-12 Education Initiative proposed here; the pivotal “The High Art of Riding Low” exhibit capturing rich Latino history; the “Los Angeles: The Living City” interactive mural representing our city’s multicultural evolution; and dozens of other exhibits and services, the museum works to address the root causes of disparity.