Museums/Galleries in Los Angeles

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Museums/Galleries in Los Angeles

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Adamson House and Malibu Lagoon Museum
With spectacular views of Surfrider Beach and lush garden grounds...
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Museums / Galleries Santa Monica, Venice, and Malibu
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Architecture and Design Museum (A+D)
Unique buildings are what make Los Angeles a captivating city...
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Museums / Galleries Wilshire Boulevard, Museum Row, and Farmers Market
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Avenues of Art and Design
Established in 1996, the area defined by Melrose Avenue and Robertson...
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Museums / Galleries West Hollywood
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Bergamot Station
Named after a stop on the Red Trolley line that once shuttled...
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Museums / Galleries Santa Monica, Venice, and Malibu
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California African-American Museum
Works by 20th-century African-American artists and contemporary...
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Museums / Galleries Downtown Los Angeles
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California Heritage Museum
The real star of this collection is the 1894 Victorian house...
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Museums / Galleries Santa Monica, Venice, and Malibu
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California Science Center
You're bound to see excited kids running up to the dozens of...
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Museums / Galleries Downtown Los Angeles
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Chinese American Museum
In the El Pueblo Plaza adjacent to Olvera Street, you might think...
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Museums / Galleries Downtown Los Angeles
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Craft and Folk Art Museum (CAFAM)
A small but important cultural landmark in the city, CAFAM pioneered...
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Museums / Galleries Wilshire Boulevard, Museum Row, and Farmers Market
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The Geffen Contemporary
Originally opened in 1982 as a temporary exhibit hall while the...
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Museums / Galleries Downtown Los Angeles
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The Getty Center
With its curving walls and isolated hilltop perch, the Getty...
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Museums / Galleries The Westside
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Getty Villa Malibu
Feeding off the cultures of ancient Rome, Greece, and Etruria...
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Museums / Galleries Santa Monica, Venice, and Malibu
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Guinness World of Records
Saluting those who have gone the extra mile to earn placement...
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Museums / Galleries Hollywood
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Heritage Square Museum
Looking like a prop street set up by a film studio, Heritage...
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Museums / Galleries Pasadena Area
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Hollywood Heritage Museum
A must for Cecil B. DeMille fans, this unassuming building across...
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Museums / Galleries Hollywood
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Hollywood Museum
Lovers of Hollywood's glamorous past will be singing "Hooray...
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Museums / Galleries Hollywood
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Hollywood Wax Museum
Desperately looking for stars? You can spot celebrities past...
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Museums / Galleries Hollywood
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Japanese American National Museum
What was it like to grow up on a sugar plantation in Hawaii?...
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Museums / Galleries Downtown Los Angeles
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Kidspace Children's Museum
Looking like a Looney Tunes cartoon, this activity-focused, kid-centric...
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Museums / Galleries Pasadena Area
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L.A. Live / Nokia Theater
As an entertainment, sports, and residential complex adjacent...
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Museums / Galleries Downtown Los Angeles
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La Brea Tar Pits
Do your children have dinos on the brain? Show them where dinosaurs...
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Museums / Galleries Wilshire Boulevard, Museum Row, and Farmers Market
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Long Beach Museum of Art
This museum fills a charming 1912 shingle-clad Arts and Crafts...
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Museums / Galleries Long Beach, San Pedro, and Palos Verdes
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Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)
Serving as the focal point of the museum district along Wilshire...
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Museums / Galleries Wilshire Boulevard, Museum Row, and Farmers Market
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Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust
This museum, dedicated solely to the Holocaust, has struggled...
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Museums / Galleries West Hollywood
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The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA)
The MOCA's permanent collection of American and European art...
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Museums / Galleries Downtown Los Angeles
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Museum of Latin American Art (MoLAA)
After three years of massive renovation work, this museum—the...
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Museums / Galleries Long Beach, San Pedro, and Palos Verdes
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Museum of Tolerance
Using interactive technology, this important museum (part of...
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Museums / Galleries The Westside
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Muzeo
Muzeo is a stunning 20,000-square-foot exhibition hall housed...
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Museums / Galleries Disneyland Resort
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Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
With more than 35 million specimens, this is the third-largest...
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Museums / Galleries Downtown Los Angeles
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Norton Simon Museum
Long familiar to television viewers of the New Year's Day Rose...
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Museums / Galleries Pasadena Area
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Pacific Asia Museum
Devoted to the arts and culture of Asia and the Pacific Islands...
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Museums / Galleries Pasadena Area
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Page Museum at the La Brea Tar Pits
This member of the Natural History Museum family is sunk, bunkerlike...
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Museums / Galleries Wilshire Boulevard, Museum Row, and Farmers Market
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Paley Center for Media
Formerly the Museum of Television and Radio, this institution...
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Museums / Galleries Beverly Hills and Century City
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Pasadena Museum of California Art
The first thing you see when you approach this museum is the...
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Museums / Galleries Pasadena Area
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Petersen Automotive Museum
You don't have to be a gearhead to appreciate this building full...
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Museums / Galleries Wilshire Boulevard, Museum Row, and Farmers Market
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Ripley's Believe It or Not
"Odditorium" is a good name for it—while the ticket price...
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Museums / Galleries Hollywood
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Silver Lake Conservancy of Music
Musicians can brush up on their skills with $25 lessons at the...
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Museums / Galleries Hollywood
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Silver Lake Film Festival
There's also an annual Silver Lake Film Festival (www.silverlakefilmfestival.org)...
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Museums / Galleries Hollywood
 
Skirball Cultural Center
With a mission of exhibiting the connections "between four thousand...
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Museums / Galleries The Westside
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Southwest Museum
Readily spotted from the Pasadena Freeway (Highway 110), this...
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Museums / Galleries Pasadena Area
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Sunset Junction Street Fair
For a blast of the neighborhoods' creative and gay energy, visit...
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Museums / Galleries Hollywood
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UCLA Hammer Museum
The bold murals and installations at this museum have been known...
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Museums / Galleries The Westside
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