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Website. www .lacma .org. The Los Angeles County Museum of Art ( LACMA) is an art museum located on Wilshire Boulevard in the Miracle Mile vicinity of Los Angeles. LACMA is on Museum Row, adjacent to the La Brea Tar Pits (George C. Page Museum). LACMA was founded in 1961, splitting from the Los Angeles Museum of History, Science and Art.
This list of museums in Los Angeles is a list of museums located within the City of Los Angeles, defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
Greater Los Angeles Area. Historic house. 1929 home decorated with Malibu Potteries tile, tour includes adjoining Malibu Lagoon Museum in the former garage, with exhibits of local history. Adobe de Palomares. Pomona. San Gabriel Valley. Historic house. 1850s adobe ranch home, operated by the Historical Society of Pomona Valley.
Levitated Mass is a 2012 large-scale public art sculpture by Michael Heizer at Resnick North Lawn at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. The installation consists of a 340-ton boulder sculpture placed above a 456-foot viewing pathway to accommodate 360-degree viewing. [ 1] The nature, expense and scale of the installation attracted discussion ...
Added to NRHP. March 4, 1975. The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County is the largest natural and historical museum in the western United States. [ 3 ] Its collections include nearly 35 million specimens and artifacts and cover 4.5 billion years of history.
Architect (s) Bruce Goff (completed by Bart Prince after Goff's death) The Pavilion for Japanese Art is a part of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art containing the museum's collection of Japanese works that date from approximately 3000 BC through the 20th century AD. The building itself was designed by renowned architect Bruce Goff.
Hammer Museum. / 34.05944°N 118.44361°W / 34.05944; -118.44361. The Hammer Museum, which is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles, is an art museum and cultural center known for its artist-centric and progressive array of exhibitions and public programs. Founded in 1990 by the entrepreneur-industrialist Armand ...
A Line. at Grand Avenue Arts/Bunker Hill. Website. www .thebroad .org. The Broad[ 1] ( / broʊd /) is a contemporary art museum on Grand Avenue in Downtown Los Angeles. The museum is named for philanthropists Eli and Edythe Broad, who financed the $140 million building that houses the Broad art collections. [ 2]