Exposition Park & Natural History Museum
900 Exposition Blvd, Exposition Park, Los Angeles, 90007, United States
Exposition Park is LA's museum campus — a 160-acre park south of downtown that houses the Natural History Museum (the largest natural and cultural history museum in the western US), the California Science Center (home to the Space Shuttle Endeavour), the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art (opening soon, designed by MAD Architects), and the LA Memorial Coliseum, which hosted the Olympics in 1932 and 1984 and will again in 2028.
Getty Center
1200 Getty Center Drive, Los Angeles, CA 90049
The Getty Center is one of the greatest art museums in the world — a billion-dollar campus of Italian travertine buildings designed by Richard Meier on a hilltop above the 405 freeway that houses the Getty collection of European paintings, sculpture, decorative arts, and photography in a setting that uses the Southern California landscape as an integral part of the museum experience.
La Brea Tar Pits
5801 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90036
The La Brea Tar Pits are the most important Ice Age fossil site in the world — natural asphalt seeps in the middle of urban Los Angeles that have been trapping and preserving animals for over 50,000 years, producing the richest collection of Pleistocene fossils ever found.
LACMA (Los Angeles County Museum of Art)
5905 Wilshire Blvd, Miracle Mile, Los Angeles, 90036, United States
LACMA is the largest art museum in the western United States — a multi-building campus on Wilshire Boulevard's Miracle Mile that houses 150,000 works spanning 6,000 years, from ancient Assyrian reliefs to contemporary installations.
The Broad
221 S Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90012
The Broad is LA's most popular contemporary art museum — a honeycomb-like building on Grand Avenue in downtown designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro that houses the Eli and Edythe Broad collection of 2,000 works of postwar and contemporary art, including signature pieces by Jeff Koons, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Cindy Sherman, and Yayoi Kusama.
The Getty Villa
17985 Pacific Coast Highway, Pacific Palisades, CA 90272
The Getty Villa is a recreation of a Roman luxury villa — the Villa dei Papiri in Herculaneum, buried by Vesuvius in 79 AD — built on the Malibu coastline by J.
The Huntington Library & Gardens
1151 Oxford Rd, San Marino, 91108, United States
The Huntington is one of the greatest cultural institutions in California — a 120-acre estate in San Marino that combines a world-class research library (housing a Gutenberg Bible, a Shakespeare First Folio, and Chaucer's Canterbury Tales manuscript), an art collection (Gainsborough's 'Blue Boy' and Lawrence's 'Pinkie'), and 16 themed botanical gardens that together create a day-long experience unlike anything else in Southern California.
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