Museum of Latin American Art (MOLAA)
Former roller-skating rink turned museum of modern and contemporary Latin American art, with a sculpture garden.
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This guide to the Museum of Latin American Art in Long Beach traces a building's second life: a 1920s roller-skating rink built on an old silent-film backlot, later bought by retired physician Robert Gumbiner, who put his own fortune into turning it into a museum devoted to modern and contemporary Latin American art. You'll hear about architect Manuel Rosen's redesign, the later expansion that doubled the galleries, and the sculpture garden it added, each piece standing in for a different country. It's a good spot to notice how little of the old rink shows through anymore.
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