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UCLA provided a listing with pictures of various objects – with valuations – located at the Japanese Garden to the California Garden & Landscape History Society.  The first page of the listing is shown above.   Apparently, the original plan was to remove and perhaps sell all the objects.  Now it appears that three objects will be removed and put in the Fowler Museum collection on campus.  Numbers 11, 21, and 22 on the listing (see link below) are definitely to go to Fowler.  Numbers 2 and 19 will, for the moment, remain in the garden and might later be removed…

Update from our prior post: Things on the Internet don’t completely die.  Above is an image of the first page of the now-removed UCLA website for the Japanese Garden.  Below is a link where you can see other parts of the website: Open publication – Free publishing – More ucla

============================== As our prior blog post noted, plans are afoot to sell UCLA’s Japanese Garden.  When you Google “Japanese Garden UCLA,” one of the first page entries is www.japanesegarden.ucla.edu.  However, when you try to go to that address, the error message above appears.  Since someone at UCLA has shut down the site, the sense that the sale of the garden is imminent is reinforced. If you go to the UCLA faculty handbook at http://www.apo.ucla.edu/facultyhandbook/5.htm the garden website is still listed:UCLA HANNAH CARTER JAPANESE GARDEN The two-acre UCLA Hannah Carter Japanese Garden, located one mile from campus in Bel Air, is an authentic…