Museums in Los Angeles, CA, USA
Skim through the must-visit attractions in Los Angeles and you’ll notice a trend: It’s a lot of outdoorsy fun. So...
The Getty
1200 Getty Center Dr, Los Angeles, CA 90049, USA
What’s now called the Getty Villa (a coastal mansion filled with antiquities that’s absolutely worth a visit, too) served as the decades-long home for...
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
5905 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90036, USA
Chris Burden’s Urban Light, a piece made up of 202 cast-iron street lamps gathered from around L.A. and restored to working order, has quickly become...
The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens
1151 Oxford Rd, San Marino, CA 91108, USA
The bequest of entrepreneur Henry E. Huntington is now one of the most enjoyable attractions in the Los Angeles region. It’s also a destination that...
Academy Museum of Motion Pictures
6067 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90036, USA
The history of moviemaking finally has a permanent home in L.A., and it’s filled with the sorts of cinematic treasures you’d expect from the people...
The Broad
221 S Grand Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90012, USA
Three words: Infinity Mirror Rooms. Downtown’s persistently popular contemporary art museum has two of Yayoi Kusama’s immersive, mirror-laden rooms...
Hammer Museum
10899 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90024, USA
Industrialist Armand Hammer founded this museum in 1990, primarily to house his own collection, and it opened just three weeks before he died....
Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
900 Exposition Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90007, USA
The NHM’s original Beaux Arts structure was the first museum building in L.A., opening in 1913 with Exposition Park itself. The more recent Otis Booth...
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
250 S Grand Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90012, USA
The main branch of L.A.’s Museum of Contemporary Art houses thousands of artworks crafted from 1940 to today, and it’s an efficient primer on post-war...
The Getty Villa
17985 Pacific Coast Hwy, Pacific Palisades, CA 90272, USA
In 1974, oil magnate J. Paul Getty opened a museum of his holdings in a faux villa. Eventually the decorative arts and paintings were moved to the...
Norton Simon Museum
411 W Colorado Blvd, Pasadena, CA 91105, USA
The Norton Simon’s Frank Gehry-helmed makeover in the late 1990s raised the museum’s profile, but it also helped to expand the range of the museum’s...
Griffith Observatory
2800 E Observatory Rd, Los Angeles, CA 90027, USA
The vista from this hilltop landmark is stunning, particularly at night when Los Angeles twinkles below. Inside you’ll find a bevy of exhibits,...
California Science Center
700 Exposition Park Dr, Los Angeles, CA 90037, USA
Permanent exhibit galleries at this kid-friendly Exposition Park museum explore life sciences, human innovation and powered flight (all with a...
California African American Museum
600 State Dr, Los Angeles, CA 90037, USA
One of three institutions clustered near each other in Exposition Park, this handsome museum documents the historical achievements of African...
Hollyhock House
4800 Hollywood Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90027, USA
This 1921, Mayan-inflected Frank Lloyd Wright house was originally built as a “progressive theatrical community” space by activist and oil heiress...
Autry Museum of the American West
Griffith Park, 4700 Western Heritage Way, Los Angeles, CA 90027, USA
Based on the name, you might expect this Griffith Park museum to be a kitschy exploration of the life and works of famous singing cowboy Gene Autry....
La Brea Tar Pits and Museum
5801 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90036, USA
Back in 1875, a group of amateur paleontologists discovered animal remains in the pits at Rancho La Brea, which bubbled with asphalt from a petroleum...
Museum of Latin American Art (MOLAA)
628 Alamitos Ave, Long Beach, CA 90802, USA
Located on land that once housed a productive silent film studio, everything about this museum is a forward-thinking enterprise, from its modern and...
Petersen Automotive Museum
6060 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90036, USA
Miracle Mile was the first commercial development in L.A. designed expressly for the benefit of drivers, and so a former department store makes an apt...
Japanese American National Museum
100 N Central Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90012, USA
This museum tells the story of Japanese immigration to the U.S., from early restrictions on property ownership to the brutal internment camps during...
Skirball Cultural Center
2701 N Sepulveda Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90049, USA
This hillside campus off the 405 aims to look at connections between 4,000 years of Jewish heritage and communities within L.A. The permanent displays...
Hauser & Wirth
901 E 3rd St, Los Angeles, CA 90013, USA
Though technically a gallery, Hauser & Wirth basically feels like a museum. Much of that is owed to the international gallerist’s massive footprint, a...