| Riverside Metropolitan Museum | |
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Built 1912, originally the United States Post Office |
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| Established | 1924 |
| Location | Riverside, California |
| Type | History |
| Collection size | 100,000 |
| Website | http://www.riversideca.gov/museum/ |
The Riverside Metropolitan Museum, or RMM, is an history and anthropological museum located in the historic Mission Inn District of Riverside, California, United States. The museum is a department of the City of Riverside, but is supported by the Riverside Museum Associates (RMA), a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization.
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The museum was established on December 12, 1924, when the widow of Cornelius Earle Rumsey donated his collection of Native American artifacts to the City of Riverside. Rumsey, a retired executive of the National Buscuit Company (Nabisco), came to Riverside for his health and subsequently developed an interest in Native American artifacts.[1]
The museum was originally located in the basement of the old City Hall building from 1925 through 1948. It then moved to basement of the current building, originally a Federal Post Office. As the museum's collections grew, the museum expanded to all of the floors in the 1960s and 1970s.[2]
After his retirement from teaching at Riverside Junior College, noted naturalist Edmund C. Jaeger served as a curator for the museum. A permanent exhibit at the museum is dedicated to him and the natural landscape of Southern California.
The museum is accredited by the American Association of Museums (AAM).[3]
The building was designed in the Renaissance Revival Style.