The Center for Land Use Interpretation

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Programs and Projects
	The Center produces public exhibits on themes and regions for galleries and museums, as well as for exhibition in CLUI spaces in Los Angeles and elsewhere, and conducts public bus tours and educational field trips. Lectures and presentations are held at the CLUI’s exhibit spaces, through programs such as the Independent Interpreter series. Other programming includes site specific Extrapolative Projects in the field, and special focus thematic study areas. More about Programs and Projects...
Land Use Database
	A collection of source material and processed information on unusual and exemplary land use in the United States, the database is used in-house at the CLUI as a resource for regional and thematic programming, and is coupled with the CLUI Photographic Archive, a collection of thousands of images taken by CLUI representatives, covering all types of land use sites. A limited version of the Land Use Database, with over one thousand locations, is available on the internet. Search the Land use Database...
The American Land Museum
	The American Land Museum is a network of landscape exhibition sites being developed across the United States. Each site in the network will provide regional interpretive programming for the selected district it represents. The Center’s facilities at Wendover, Utah, for example, represent the Great Basin region, and provide exhibitions and information to the public, and support the Center’s Wendover Residence Program, which enables new and innovative interpretations of the region to be developed and presented. More about the American Land Museum...

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Visiting the Center

LOS ANGELES
The Center's exhibit space and offices in Los Angeles offers exhibits, lectures, and other resources for the public. A small bookstore stocks CLUI publications, and titles of special interest from other publishers. The Center's library and archives are available to researchers by appointment. Docents are available to address classes and groups by prior arrangement.
On display - POST-CONSUMED: THE LANDSCAPE OF WASTE IN LOS ANGELES
Directions and hours

TROY
The Center's office in Troy, New York is located in a small industrial city on the Hudson River. It is open to the public during announced programming periods.
Directions

WENDOVER
Visitors to the Center's complex in Wendover, Utah are encouraged to begin at the Exhibit Hall, which normally has a number of displays about the region, as well as work presented by Wendover Residence Program participants. Other exhibits and displays are scattered over a wide area.
Directions and hours

DESERT RESEARCH STATION
The DRS is a CLUI research and display facility located in the Mojave desert, acting as a satellite to the Los Angeles location, and focusing on the California Desert region. It is open to the public during special events and by appointment. Field sessions and group tour programs are based out of the DRS.
Directions and hours

HOUSTON
The Center's Houston Field Office is located at a former junk yard on the industrial fringe of the east side of the city, with frontage on the Buffalo Bayou, the main shipping channel and drainage artery for the City of Houston. It is open to the public during announced programming periods. Read more about CLUI Houston.

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