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The George C. Page Museum of La Brea Discoveries, part of the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, was built next to the tar pits in Hancock Park on Wilshire Boulevard. It was named for a local philanthropist. Construction began in 1975, and the museum opened to the public in 1977. [20]
La Brea Bakery is an industrial baking company started in Los Angeles, California.Since opening its flagship store on 624 S La Brea Avenue in 1989—six months earlier than Campanile, the restaurant it was built to serve—La Brea has opened two much larger bakeries in Van Nuys, California, and Swedesboro, New Jersey, to serve wholesale clients. [1]
Children's Museum of Los Angeles, closed in 2000; Hollywood Erotic Museum, closed in 2006; Sports Museum of Los Angeles, closed in 2016 [5] VIVA Art Center – Valley Institute of Visual Art, Sherman Oaks, closed in 2011 [6] Wells Fargo History Museum (Los Angeles), closed in 2020 [7]
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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.
MOCA's permanent collection exhibitions show how, when the museum was founded in the late 1970s, it represented something wholly new: the beginning of L.A. art's full-scale institutionalization.
Hancock Park is a city park in the Miracle Mile section of the Mid-Wilshire neighborhood in Los Angeles, California.. The park's destinations include the La Brea Tar Pits; the adjacent George C. Page Museum of La Brea Discoveries, which displays the fossils of Ice Age prehistoric mammals from the tar pits; and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) complex. [2]