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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.
Battleship USS Iowa Museum: San Pedro: Los Angeles Harbor Region: Maritime Museum / Ship Operated by the Pacific Battleship Center, the USS Iowa (BB-61) served during WWII, Korean War, and the Cold War, and hosted 3 Presidents (President Franklin D. Roosevelt, President Ronald Reagan, and President George H. W. Bush.) Bert Rodriguez Museum West ...
In 2010 the Hammer announced its inaugural biennial devoted exclusively to Los Angeles artists. [11] [12] Though the museum has routinely featured California artists as part of its ongoing exhibition program, the Made in L.A. series has emerged as an important and high-profile platform to showcase the diversity and energy of Los Angeles as an emerging art capitol.
It opened as a contemporary art museum from 2017. The Marciano Art Foundation (formally named the Maurice and Paul Marciano Art Foundation) is a non-profit arts foundation located on Wilshire Boulevard in the Mid-Wilshire neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. [1] [2] It was established by the co-founders of Guess, Maurice Marciano and Paul ...
LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes, also called LA Plaza, is a Mexican-American museum and cultural center in Los Angeles, California, USA that opened in April 2011. [1] Housed in two historic buildings in downtown Los Angeles it includes a museum, a 30,000-square-foot outdoor space with a performance stage, an edible garden, and LA Cocina de Gloria Molina, a teaching kitchen and flexible event space.
The MAK Center for Art and Architecture was founded in 1994 by Peter Noever, Director of the MAK/Museum für angewandte Kunst Wien, Vienna.On August 10, 1994, the Friends of the Schindler House formally entered into an agreement with the Austrian Museum of Applied Arts in Vienna (Museum für angewandte Kunst Wien) to create the non-profit MAK Center for Art and Architecture.
The Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation is a non-profit arts foundation located on North Carolwood Drive in the Holmby Hills district of Los Angeles, California. Modern and contemporary artwork in the Frederick R. Weisman collection are displayed in a "living with art—house museum" context, with guided public tours by appointment with the foundation.
The museum was originally located within the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, and later moved to a historic department store designed by Welton Becket. Opened in 1962, the building first served as a short-lived U.S. branch of Seibu Department Stores, before operating as an Ohrbach's department store from 1965 to 1986. Six years ...