The Venice Heritage Museum tackles a complicated subject — the beach town's reinventions

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The Venice Heritage Museum takes on a complicated subject — the history of Venice Beach.

History is a complicated subject in a place that embraces reinvention as strongly as Venice Beach, and you can tell by the neighborhood's murals. There’s Jim Morrison of the Doors; the cigar magnate Abbot Kinney, widely thought of as Venice’s founder; and Teena Marie, a white soul singer from Oakwood, Venice's historic Black community. But there’s also Chester the Cheetah, the Chinese philosopher Lao Tzu, Albert Einstein and what feels like one young Arnold Schwarzenegger per block.

, an ambitious plan by a group of investors to build a center for Black commerce and suburban residential life. But she says she still has questions about the museum. Nightingale has seen plenty of worlds built in her years in Venice, but what has affected her more is their dismantling. She remembers the names of the Black families who had to sell their houses so the city could build a dog park.

 

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