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New Cheech Marin Museum Will House Legendary Comedian’s Massive Chicano Art Collection

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Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorCheech Marin is one of the foremost collectors of Chicano art in the United States.

The comedian, best known as one-half of Cheech & Chong, has a collection that’s so highly regarded that the city of Riverside, just outside Los Angeles, is set to open the Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art, Culture & Industry of the Riverside Art Museum in the fall.

Earlier this month the city council approved plans for the center, which will be located in a former library after a $13 million renovation.“They came to me with the idea, but I didn’t understand it at first glance,” Marin tells Variety. “I was like, ‘They want me to buy a museum?’ They were like, ‘No, we want to give you the museum —.

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