In may 2017, this actor and collector Cheech Marin announce that he is working to develop a center for Chicano art in Riverside, California, that would provide a permanent home for his seven-hundred-work collection. In february 2021, was announced that the Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art and Culture is to open this fall in Riverside, California, having secured $1 million in annual funding from the city for 25 years. Intended as the first museum devoted to Mexican-American art, the institution will occupy the former Riverside Public Library and will be home to some 700 works belonging to Marin, who is widely known in the sometimes overlapping spheres of marijuana and comedy, and whose collection of Chicano art is said to be the largest in the world.