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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.
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 ...
Greater Los Angeles Area: Art: Part of Pepperdine University, works from the collections of the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation: Gallery 825: West Hollywood: Westside: Art: Operated by the Los Angeles Art Association: Gamble House: Pasadena: San Gabriel Valley: Historic house: 1908 Craftsman-style house George Westmore Research Library ...
Los Angeles actually offers a lot of free things to do around town, including world class museums offering free admissions, plenty of hiking trails, music performances and much more. Whether you ...
Some of L.A.'s biggest arts institutions including the J. Paul Getty Trust, LACMA, MOCA and the Hammer Museum are among those backing an emergency reserve for artists and arts workers that stands ...
Over 20 exhibitions a year of traditional and contemporary art Riverside International Automotive Museum CLOSED: Riverside: Riverside: Automotive: Closed in June 2016 after the death the Doug Magnon in 2015. The displays included California auto racing history, Dan Gurney, and the largest collection of Mazerati road cars in the United States ...
A smaller predecessor, Metropolis I (2004), is in Japan at the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa. [11] Measuring 7 ft × 16 ft × 11 ft (2.1 m × 4.9 m × 3.4 m), that sculpture employs about 80 Hot-Wheels cars, which tend to fall off the track. [2] Metropolis II cars are custom built and use magnets for traction. Burden's name ...
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.