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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.
75000434 [2] 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.
The Getty Center, in Los Angeles, California, is a campus of the Getty Museum and other programs of the Getty Trust. The $1.3 billion center opened to the public on December 16, 1997, [ 2] and is well known for its architecture, gardens, and views overlooking Los Angeles. The center sits atop a hill connected to a visitors' parking garage at ...
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.
The Broad [1] (/ b r oʊ d /) 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] It offers free general admission to its permanent collection galleries. [2]
The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures is a film museum opened in 2021 located in Los Angeles, California. The first large-scale museum of its kind in the United States, [ 2][ 3] it houses more than 13 million objects, and is dedicated to the history, science, and cultural impact of the film industry. The museum is located in the historic May ...
Culture of Los Angeles. The culture of Los Angeles is rich with arts and ethnically diverse. The greater Los Angeles metro area has several notable art museums including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), the J. Paul Getty Museum on the Santa Monica Mountains overlooking the Pacific, the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), and the ...