Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center (Corporate Name)

Armand Hamer Museum of Art and Cultural Center and Hammer Museum are the only authorized forms of name for this entity. Unless an explicit message from the Museum stating that a change of name has occured consider all other forms of names used on publications as variants.

Kazimir Malevich, c1990: t.p. (Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center, Los Angeles) p. ix (opened 1990)

Phone call to Museum's Public Information Officer, 5/19/95 (UCLA assumed management of the Museum on April 1, 1994, Museum retains separate identity; letter head, UCLA at the Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center, 10899 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90024)

Wolfgang Tillmans, 2006: t.p. (Hammer Museum)

E-mail from Museum Communications Director, 7/11/06 ("The museum s full legal name continues to be Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center. However, we use the shorter version, Hammer Museum, on our public materials.")

E-mail from Director, Exhibitions, Publications, Programs, June 16, 2009 ("Hammer Museum now uses the name "Hammer" or "Hammer Museum" not "Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center". This longer name is our old name and is indeed our legal name but only when followed by "Inc." as in "Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center, Inc.")

Hammer Museum website, July 13, 2010: home page (Hammer Museum) about the Hammer (Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Culture Center (AHMACC) opened in Nov. 1990; Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center is operated by the University of California, Los Angeles) http://hammer.ucla.edu/

E-mail from UCLA Library, Jan. 27, 2011 (Sara Stifler, Director of Communications at the Hammer Museum confirms that Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center is the only name the museum has ever had; often publications, letterheads, etc. may include "UCLA" but UCLA has never been part of the name of the museum. Ms. Stifler confirms that the preferred name of the museum is Hammer Museum, but that the original name is still in use for legal purposes)