Drum Barracks

Sitio Historico

O quartel de bateria, localizado perto do porto de Los Angeles, é a última instalação militar original da era civil
americana restante na área de Los Angeles. Hoje, o quartel está aberto como um museu que exibe e ensina a
história da Guerra Civil, com ênfase no papel da Califórnia no conflito.

Destaques

Aqui estão alguns dos itens "obrigatórios" no Drum Barracks.

 Courtyard
 Barracks Room
 Officer's Bedroom

 🌐 Website
 🎟️$5 per person
 📍 1052 N Banning Blvd, Wilmington, CA 90744

Discovery Cube Orange County

Museum da Ciencia

O Discovery Cube Orange County Science Museum, em Santa Ana, é difícil de perder. Seu cubo de matriz solar de
dez andares, que se destaca pela Interstate 5, tornou-se um marco. Com mais de 100 exibições de ciências práticas,
é um ótimo museu para visitar toda a família. O grande museu é dividido em várias áreas temáticas: ciência do
hóquei, Dino Quest, Rocket Lab, Air & Space, Eco-Challening, Dynamic Earth, Quake Zone e Showcase Gallery, que
abriga exposições viajantes.

Destaques

Aqui estão alguns dos itens "obrigatórios" no Discovery Cube Orange County.

 Dino Quest
 Eco-Challenge
 Quake Zone

 🌐 Website
 🎟️$20 per person
 📍 2500 N Main St, Santa Ana, CA 92705

Craft and Folk Art Museum

Specialty Museum

The Craft and Folk Art Museum opened its doors on Los Angeles’ historic Miracle Mile in 1965. The
rotating exhibitions focus on contemporary art made from craft media and processes. Craft Contemporary
believes a museum isn't only for seeing art but for creating art too! The museum offers many hands-on
workshops led by professional artists and instructors in addition to classes, art talks, readings, and
participatory projects for all ages.

Highlights

Here are some of the "must see" items at Craft and Folk Art Museum.

 Finding the Center: Works by Echiko Ohira

 Cynthia Minet: Jacked
 RAW: Craft, Commodity, and Capitalism

 🌐 Website
 🎟️$9 per person
 📍 5814 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90036

Minnie Hill Palmer House/The Homestead Acre

Historic Site

The Minnie Hill Palmer House, also known as The Homestead Acre, is the only remaining homestead
cottage in the San Fernando Valley. The cottage is a redwood Stick-Eastlake style American Craftsman-
Bungalow. The house, gardens and Chatsworth Museum are open for tours from 1-4 p.m. on the first
Sunday of every month.

Highlights

Here are some of the "must see" items at Minnie Hill Palmer House/The Homestead Acre.

 Homestead Cottage
 Virginia Watson Chatsworth Museum
 Minnie Hill Palmer Gardens

 🌐 Website
 🎟️$0 per person
 📍 10385 Shadow Oak Dr, Chatsworth, CA 91311

Centinela Adobe

Historic Site

Built in 1834, the Centinela Adobe is the oldest building in the area. This Spanish Colonial style adobe
house, also known as La Casa de la Centinela, is part of the Historical Society of Centinela Valley. The
adobe is now a museum for the public. It is furnished with period furniture and artifacts from the late 19th
century. The Centinela Adobe is open on Sundays from 2 to 4 p.m. and docents are available to provide
tours.

Highlights

Here are some of the "must see" items at Centinela Adobe.

  Daniel Freeman Land Office
 Walter Haskel Heritage Center

 🌐 Website
 🎟️$0 per person
 📍 7634 Midfield Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90045

Catalina Island Museum

History Museum

The Catalina Island Museum is dedicated to preserving and sharing the island's unique history. The
museum's collection consists of Catalina pottery and tile (which was manufactured on the island from 1927-
1937) and more than 10,000 photographs and negatives documenting island life from the early 1880s to the
present day. The museum is also home to boat models, sport fishing items, artifacts from the island's
steamships and more.

Highlights

Here are some of the "must see" items at Catalina Island Museum.

 Catalina pottery and tile

 photographs and negatives
 boat models

 🌐 Website
 🎟️$17 per person
 📍 217 Metropole Ave, Avalon, CA 90704

Luckman Fine Arts Complex

Cultural Center

The Luckman Fine Arts Complex, located in the California State University, Los Angeles, is made up of
four separate venues: Luckman Theatre, Luckman Intimate Theatre, Luckman Street of the Arts, and The
Luckman Gallery. The gallery hosts rotating contemporary exhibits.

Highlights

Here are some of the "must see" items at Luckman Fine Arts Complex.

 Grandeza Mexicana Folk Ballet Company

 The Nutcracker
 Valentina

 🌐 Website
 🎟️$0 per person
  📍 5151 State University Dr, Los Angeles, CA 90032

California African American Museum

Art Museum

Located in Los Angeles's Exposition Park, the California African American Museum (CAAM) is much
more than just a museum. The space includes three exhibition galleries, a theater gallery, a large sculpture
court, a conference center/special events room, an archive and research library with 20,000+ books and other
reference materials available. The museum's permanent collection includes over 4,000 paintings,
photographs, sculptures, and artifacts focused on representing the diverse contributions of African
Americans in the United States.

Highlights

Here are some of the "must see" items at California African American Museum.

 Bronze bust of civil rights activist Dr. Mary Mcleod Bethune by artist Richmond Barthé
 Walter Burrell Collection of audio recordings of Burrell’s interviews with African American
celebrities
 The oral histories of Celes King, a local civil rights activist and former Tuskegee airman

 🌐 Website
 🎟️$0 per person
 📍 600 State Dr, Los Angeles, CA 90037

Bolton Hall

Historic Site

Built in 1913, the Bolton House is a historic American Craftsman era stone building in Tujunga, Los
Angeles. The museum has a full collection of photos, document archives and artifacts from Rancho Tujunga.
You'll find these items on display along with rotating exhibits on the history of Rancho Tujunga. The
museum is open to the public on Sunday and Tuesday afternoons.

Highlights

Here are some of the "must see" items at Bolton Hall.

 Gavel used by the presiding officer during early town meetings

 Building tools used in the construction of Bolton Hall
 Old photographs and the old clock from the first Tujunga Post Office

 🌐 Website
 🎟️$0 per person
 📍 10110 Commerce Ave, Tujunga, CA 91042

Bhagavad-gita Museum

Private Museum
Located in West Los Angeles, the Bhagavad-gita Museum is a multimedia art museum all about the
philosophy of Bhagavad-gita. The museum was established in 1977. It consists of eleven pretty much life-
size dioramas. The dolls in said dioramas are constructed from traditional Indian doll-making materials such
as bamboo, rice straw, various clays, and rice husk.

Highlights

Here are some of the "must see" items at Bhagavad-gita Museum.

 Introduction — Prabhupada and the Bhagavad-gita

 The Precarious Condition of the Living Entity
 Lord Chaitanya's Sankirtan Festival

 🌐 Website
 🎟️$10+ per person
 📍 3764 Watseka Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90034

Ben Maltz Gallery

Art Museum

The Ben Maltz Gallery is located in the Otis College of Art and Design. The gallery hosts rotating
exhibitions in a variety of media with a focus on contemporary art. Admission to the gallery is free.

Highlights

Here are some of the "must see" items at Ben Maltz Gallery.

 Centennial: 100 Years of Otis Alumni

 Spiritual Material: Kenzi Shiokava
 Joanne Greenbaum: Things We Said Today

 🌐 Website
 🎟️$0 per person
 📍 9045 Lincoln Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90045

Barnsdall Art Park

Cultural Center

Located in the East Hollywood district of Los Angeles, the Barnsdall Art Park is home to many arts
intuitions, including the following three. First, The Barnsdall Gallery Theatre (BGT), which is a venue that
hosts live theatre, dance, music, spoken word, lecture, film, and special events. Second, the Hollyhock Hous,
which is a UNESCO World Heritage Site designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. Third, the Los Angeles
Municipal Art Gallery (LAMAG), which focuses on underrepresented artists from the Los Angeles area.

Highlights

Here are some of the "must see" items at Barnsdall Art Park.
  Hollyhock House
 Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery (LAMAG)
 Barnsdall Gallery Theatre (BGT)

 🌐 Website
 🎟️$7 per person
 📍 4800 Hollywood Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90027

Battleship IOWA Museum

Historic Site

The Port of Los Angeles in San Pedro is home to the USS Iowa maritime museum. The ship, the USS Iowa,
was built by the United States in 1943. The USS Iowa served during World War II, the Korean War, and the
Cold War. She was of the last class of U.S. Navy battleships to be actually built by the United States.

Highlights

Here are some of the "must see" items at Battleship IOWA Museum.

 Officers ward room

 President Roosevelt's cabin
 Armored bridge

 🌐 Website
 🎟️$30 per person
 📍 250 S Harbor Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90731

The Banning House & Museum

Historic Site

The Banning House and Museum is a 23-room historic Greek Revival-Victorian home. The residence was
built in 1864. Since falling into despair over the decades, the house interiors have been carefully restored to
their Victorian beauty, and 18 rooms are open to the public.

Highlights

Here are some of the "must see" items at The Banning House & Museum .

 Stagecoach
 Barn
 Gardens

 🌐 Website
 🎟️$5 per person
 📍 401 E M St, Wilmington, CA 90744
Avila Adobe

Historic Site

Built in 1818 by Francisco Avila, the Avila Adobe is the oldest standing residence in the city of Los
Angeles. Today it is located downtown on Olvera Street and is part of the California State Historic Park, Los
Angeles Plaza Historic District. Fun fact: The building is made from the tar found at the La Brea Tar Pits.

Highlights

Here are some of the "must see" items at Avila Adobe.

 Bedroom
 Living Room
 Kitchen

 🌐 Website
 🎟️$0 per person
 📍 10 Olvera St, Los Angeles, CA 90012

Autry Museum of the American West

History Museum

The Autry Museum of the American West is located in beautiful Griffith Park. The museum has a collection
of more than 500,000 pieces of art and artifacts. Including the Southwest Museum of the American Indian
Collection, it is one of the largest and most significant collections of Native American materials in the US.

Highlights

Here are some of the "must see" items at Autry Museum of the American West.

 Gold at the [Au]try

 Coyote Leaves the Res: The Art of Harry Fonseca
 Indian Country: The Art of David Bradley

 🌐 Website
 🎟️$14 per person
 📍 Griffith Park, 4700 Western Heritage Way, Los Angeles, CA 90027

Andres Pico Adobe

Historic Site

Built in 1834, the Andres Pico Adobe is one of the oldest adobe structures in the City of Los Angeles.
Today, the Adobe is a museum sharing the story of the Valley's history. The museum's exhibits include
native American beads, Mission and Spanish-Mexican era artifacts, costumes and clothing that span more
than a century, and furniture from the Victorian era.

Highlights
Here are some of the "must see" items at Andres Pico Adobe.

 Native American beads

 Mission and Spanish-Mexican era artifacts
 costumes and clothing

 🌐 Website
 🎟️$0 per person
 📍 10940 Sepulveda Blvd, Mission Hills, CA 91345

American Jewish University Galleries

Art Museum

The American Jewish University's two art galleries, Marjorie and Herman Platt Gallery and Borstein Art
Gallery, explore creative practice, cultures and ideas, with an emphasis on contemporary work. The spaces
host ongoing rotating exhibits. In the past, the galleries have showcased artists like David Hockney, Jim
Dine, and Frank Stella. When you visit, don't miss the Smalley Sculpture Garden!

Highlights

Here are some of the "must see" items at American Jewish University Galleries.

 David Hockney
 Jim Dine
 Frank Stella
 Smalley Sculpture Garden

 🌐 Website
 🎟️$0 per person
 📍 15600 Mulholland Drive Bel Air, CA 90077

African American Firefighter Museum

Specialty Museum

The African American Firefighter Museum is located in historic Fire Station No. 30 in the South Los
Angeles area. It is the first and so far the only free-standing African American Firefighter Museum in the
US. The museum's collection features vintage fire equipment and apparatus, memorabilia, histories, and
photos of pioneering African American firefighters in Los Angeles.

Highlights

Here are some of the "must see" items at African American Firefighter Museum.

 Vintage fire equipment

 Photos of pioneering African American firefighters
  🌐 Website
 🎟️$0 per person
 📍 1401 S Central Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90021

Museum of Illusions

Specialty Museum

The Museum of Illusions is another highly Instagrammable experience. The museum has more than 30 3D
illusions inspired by cartoons, art, current events, movies and more. There is also a super cool upside-down
house with seven unique rooms to explore.

Highlights

Here are some of the "must see" items at Museum of Illusions.

 Upside Down House

 African Safari
 Edge of a Skyscraper

 🌐 Website
 🎟️$25+ per person
 📍 6751 Hollywood Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90028

Museum of Selfies

Specialty Museum

If you've ever wanted to feel like an Instagram celebrity, this is the place for you! The Museum of Selfies in
Hollywood is full of fully-interactive exhibits for you to explore. The exhibition also explores how exactly
the selfie trend developed by looking at social media, as well as some of the psychology behind self-
portraiture.

Highlights

Here are some of the "must see" items at Museum of Selfies.

 Immersive Installations
 Upside Down Room
 ‘GOT’ selfie throne

 🌐 Website
 🎟️$25 per person
 📍 6757 Hollywood Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90028

Grammy Museum

Specialty Museum
The GRAMMY Museum at L.A. Live is fun, interactive and educational. Explore and interact with the
exhibits through touch-screens, videos, and recording booths. The museum also has a collection of historical
music artifacts including costumes and instruments from the Grammy Awards, hand-written lyrics, records,
and audio/video recordings, and outfits worn by Grammy-Award-winning musicians such as Kanye West,
Jennifer Lopez, and Rihanna.

Highlights

Here are some of the "must see" items at Grammy Museum.

 Costumes and instruments from the Grammy Awards

 Hand-written lyrics
 Outfits worn by Grammy-Award-winning musicians

 🌐 Website
 🎟️$12 per person
 📍 800 W Olympic Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90015

Marciano Art Foundation

Art Museum

In 2017, Maurice and Paul Marciano started the museum as an exhibition space to display their 1,500-piece
collection of contemporary art. Today the foundation's collection has expanded and includes works by well-
established, mid-career and emerging artists, primarily from the 1990s to the present.

Highlights

Here are some of the "must see" items at Marciano Art Foundation.

 Donna Huanca: OBSIDIAN LADDER

 Anna Uddenberg: Privé
 Yayoi Kusama, With All My Love For The Tulips, I Pray Forever, 2011

 🌐 Website
 🎟️$0 per person
 📍 4357 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90010

Japanese American National Museum

History Museum

The Japanese American National Museum is located in the Little Tokyo area near downtown. The museum's
exhibits cover more than 130 years of Japanese-American history. The collection includes a massive moving
image archive with 100,000+ feet of 16mm and 8mm home movies made by and about Japanese Americans
from the 1920s to the 1950s. You'll also find artifacts, textiles, art, photographs, and oral histories of
Japanese Americans on your visit.

Highlights
Here are some of the "must see" items at Japanese American National Museum.

 Moving image archive

 Artifacts
 Oral histories of Japanese Americans

 🌐 Website
 🎟️$16 per person
 📍 100 N Central Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90012

Norton Simon Museum

Private Museum

The Norton Simon Museum is located in Pasadena. The museum's extensive collection of more than 11,000
objects includes European paintings, sculptures, and tapestries; Asian sculptures, paintings, and woodblock
prints; and contemporary art. The sculptures on display are in a lovely garden with a large pond.

Highlights

Here are some of the "must see" items at Norton Simon Museum.

 8 Miraculous Events of the Buddha's Life from Myanmar, 13th century

 Rembrandt, Self-portrait, c. 1640
 Vincent van Gogh, The Parsonage Garden at Nuenen in the Snow, 1885

 🌐 Website
 🎟️$15 per person
 📍 411 W Colorado Blvd, Pasadena, CA 91105

Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA)

Art Museum

The Museum of Contemporary Art, MOCA for short, has three different locations in Los Angeles. The main
branch, MOCA Grand, is located on Grand Avenue in Downtown. The second, Geffen Contemporary is
located in the Little Tokyo district of downtown. The third, The Pacific Design Center facility is located in
West Hollywood. MOCA's collection includes primarily American and European contemporary art created
after 1940.

Highlights

Here are some of the "must see" items at Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA).

 Calla Look by John Chamberlain

 Black Iris by Franz Kline
 Man with Folded Arms by Roy Lichtenstein
  🌐 Website
 🎟️$15 per person
 📍 250 S Grand Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90012

Page Museum (La Brea Tar Pits)

Science Museum

Natural tar -- brea in Spanish -- has seeped up from the ground in this area (what is now LA's Hancock Park)
for tens of thousands of years. It was discovered that the tar has preserved the bones of trapped animals over
many centuries. The George C. Page Museum located next to the pits is dedicated to exploring, researching,
and sharing the history of La Brea Tar Pits with the public.

Highlights

Here are some of the "must see" items at Page Museum (La Brea Tar Pits).

 Fossil Lab
 Mammoths and Mastodons Exploration
 Ice Age Fossils

 🌐 Website
 🎟️$18+ per person
 📍 5801 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90036

Petersen Automotive Museum

Specialty Museum

The Petersen Automotive Museum located on Museum Row in Los Angeles is one of the world's largest
automotive museums. The museum has 100+ vehicles on display in 25 galleries on three different floors.

Highlights

Here are some of the "must see" items at Petersen Automotive Museum.

 1992 Batmobile from Batman Returns

 De Tomaso Pantera which belonged to Elvis Presley
 Ferrari 308 GTS Targa used by Tom Selleck in Magnum, P.I.

 🌐 Website
 🎟️$16 per person
 📍 6060 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90036

Academy Museum of Motion Pictures

Specialty Museum
The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures is the nation's first large-scale museum entirely dedicated to the
art, science, craft, business, and history of film. The museum's permanent collection includes 12 million
photographs, 190,000 moving image items, 80,000 screenplays, 61,000 posters and 104,000+ pieces of
production art.

Highlights

Here are some of the "must see" items at Academy Museum of Motion Pictures.

 Dorothy's ruby slippers from The Wizard of Oz (1939)

 Shirley Temple's tap shoes from The Little Colonel (1935)
 Typewriter used to write the screenplay for Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho (1960)

 🌐 Website
 🎟️$0 per person
 📍 6067 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90036

Architecture and Design (A+D) Museum

Specialty Museum

A+D Museum, also known as Architecture and Design Museum, Los Angeles, is located in downtown Los
Angeles Arts District. The museum's mission is to "celebrate and promote an awareness of progressive
architecture and design in everyday life."

Highlights

Here are some of the "must see" items at Architecture and Design (A+D) Museum.

 The Los Angeles Schools

 Proof & Prototype
 Shortlisted!

 🌐 Website
 🎟️$10 per person
 📍 900 E 4th St, Los Angeles, CA 90013

The Getty Villa

Art Museum

The Getty Villa is one of two locations of the J. Paul Getty Museum. It is an educational center and museum
dedicated to the arts and cultures of ancient Greece, Rome, and Etruria. The in-depth collection has 44,000
Greek, Roman, and Etruscan antiquities dating from 6,500 BC to 400 AD. The Getty Villa also has four
beautiful gardens complete with open-air Roman architecture and Mediterranean plants.

Highlights

Here are some of the "must see" items at The Getty Villa.
  Neolithic Clay Figurines
 Lansdowne Heracles
 The Victorious Youth

 🌐 Website
 🎟️$0 per person
 📍 17985 Pacific Coast Hwy, Pacific Palisades, CA 90272

Will Rogers State Historic Park

Historic Site

By the mid-1930s, Will Rogers was one of the most popular actors in Hollywood and "America's most
beloved citizen." After Rogers' death, in 1944, his widow, Betty, donated their ranch to California State
Parks. The ranch consisted of a 31-room house with guest housing, a stable, corrals, riding ring, roping
arena, polo field, golf course, and riding trails. Today you can take tours of the ranch house, picnic in the
park, take a nice hike and more.

Highlights

Here are some of the "must see" items at Will Rogers State Historic Park.

 Riding trails
 31-room house
 Stable

 🌐 Website
 🎟️$12 per person
 📍 1501 Will Rogers State Park Rd, Pacific Palisades, CA 90272

Wells Fargo Museum

Private Museum

The Los Angeles Wells Fargo Museum is located downtown in the Wells Fargo Center on Bunker Hill. The
collection and various exhibits tell the story and history of Wells Fargo Bank and the development of the
West since the company's founding in 1852.

Highlights

Here are some of the "must see" items at Wells Fargo Museum.

 Wagon Baner Ads

 Authentic 19th-century Concord stagecoach
 Historic LA Maps

 🌐 Website
 🎟️$0 per person
  📍 333 S Grand Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90071

Watts Towers Arts Center

Historic Site

Simon Rodia spent 33 years building the Watts Towers on a small piece of land he purchased in 1917. The
Watts Towers are made up of 17 interconnected sculptural towers, architectural structures, and individual
sculptural features and mosaics. The tallest of the towers is 99.5 feet tall. Today, it is connected to The
Watts Towers Arts Center, a community arts center, who runs tours, art classes and other programs.

Highlights

Here are some of the "must see" items at Watts Towers Arts Center.

 17 interconnected sculptural towers

 Mosaics
 99.5-foot tall tower

 🌐 Website
 🎟️$0 per person
 📍 1727 E 107th St, Los Angeles, CA 90002

USC Fisher Museum of Art

Art Museum

Founded in 1939, the USC Fisher Museum of Art was the first art museum established in the city of Los
Angeles. The museum's permanent collection has over 1,800 objects including 19th-century American
landscapes; 16th and 17th-century Northern European paintings; 18th-century British portraiture; and 19th-
century French Barbizon paintings, as well as 20th-century works on paper, paintings, and sculpture.

Highlights

Here are some of the "must see" items at USC Fisher Museum of Art.

 Venus Wounded by a Thorn (ca. 1608-1610) by Peter Paul Rubens

 St. John the Evangelist (1618-1620) by Anthony van Dyck
 Isabella Hunter formerly Mrs. Anne Downman (ca. 1776-1790) by Angelica Kauffmann

 🌐 Website
 🎟️$0 per person
 📍 823 W Exposition Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90089

California Science Center

Science Museum

The California Science Center has four major permanent exhibit areas, World of Life, Creative World.
World of Life, Ecosystems, and Air and Space. World of life explores the commonalities of the living world,
from the single-celled bacterium to the human being; Creative World examines the ways people employ
technology to meet their needs for transportation, communication and structures; and Ecosystems, a major
expansion opened in March of 2010, features an unprecedented blend of nearly 400 species of live plants
and animals, and hands-on exhibits in 11 immersive environments. Air and Space Exhibits explores the
design of aircraft, spacecraft, and space probes for specific tasks by applying the principles of air, space, and
flight.

Highlights

Here are some of the "must see" items at California Science Center .

 🌐 Website
 🎟️$0 per person
 📍 700 Exposition Park Drive Los Angeles, CA 90037

Hammer Museum

Art Museum

Located in the Westwood Village neighborhood of Los Angeles, the Hammer Museum presents exhibitions
of contemporary and historical work in all media of the visual arts. Their collection highlights contemporary
art since the 1960s, especially the work of emerging and under-recognized artists. Hammer also offers 300
free public programs annually. These programs include film screenings, performances, lectures, readings,
and panel discussions on current social issues.

Highlights

Here are some of the "must see" items at Hammer Museum .

 El Pelele by Francisco Goya

 Bonjour Monsieur Gauguin by Paul Gauguin
 Hospital at Saint-Remy by Vincent van Gogh

 🌐 Website
 🎟️$0 per person
 📍 10899 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90024

Annenberg Space for Photography

Art Museum

The Annenberg Space for Photography is a cultural destination dedicated to exhibiting both digital and print
photography. It opened its doors in March 2009 at 2000 Avenue of the Stars in Los Angeles. At just 10,000-
square-feet it is an intimate space for the community to come together. The space features several
powerfully-themed exhibits a year as well as photography-oriented programming, including lectures,
workshops, masterclasses, and family-friendly events. The Traveling Exhibits features the work of both
world-renowned and up-and-coming photographers, as well as original short documentary films in which
that artists share the compelling stories behind the images.

Highlights
Here are some of the "must see" items at Annenberg Space for Photography .

 Traveling Exhibits

 🌐 Website
 🎟️$0 per person
 📍 2000 Avenue of the Stars Los Angeles, CA 90067

Griffith Observatory

Science Museum

Griffith Observatory has been a world leader in public astronomy since opening its doors in 1935. The
Observatory is an iconic Los Angeles landmark (its also been featured in more than 300 films and television
shows). In addition to amazing views of downtown LA and the Hollywood sign, Griffith Observatory is
home to interesting and informative exhibits on the mysteries of astronomy and beyond. Fun fact, more
people have looked through Griffith Observatory’s telescope than any other telescope on Earth.

Highlights

Here are some of the "must see" items at Griffith Observatory .

 Samuel Oschin Planetarium Show (tickets are $3.00 - $7.00)

 The Gottlieb Transit Corridor
 Roof and Terraces Views

 🌐 Website
 🎟️$0 per person
 📍 2800 East Observatory Rd. Los Angeles, CA 90027

Natural History Museum

History Museum

The Natural History Museum (NHM) is one of L.A.’s oldest cultural institutions. In addition to sharing the
history of the planet through incredible exhibits like Age of Mammals, the Dinosaur Hall, the Gem, and
Mineral Hall -- NHM takes on the relationship between the environment and people, past and present. NHM
offers an incredible space to explore and discover the intersection of nature and culture.

Highlights

Here are some of the "must see" items at Natural History Museum .

 Dinosaur Hall
 Nature Lab
 3D Theater

 🌐 Website
  🎟️$14 per person
 📍 900 Exposition Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90007

The Broad

Art Museum

The Broad is a contemporary art museum on Grand Avenue in Downtown Los Angeles. The Broad is home
to 2,000+ pieces of contemporary art. The museum's extensive collection of contemporary work features
well-known artists like Cindy Sherman, Jeff Koons, Ed Ruscha, Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol.

Highlights

Here are some of the "must see" items at The Broad .

 Single Elvis by Andy Warhol

 Yayoi Kusama's Infinity Mirrored Room – The Souls of Millions of Light Years Away
 Cairo by Julie Mehretu

 🌐 Website
 🎟️$0 per person
 📍 The Broad, 221 S. Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90012

Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens

Library

The Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens is a collections-based educational and
research institution. The library's art galleries are extensive with a focus on 18th- and 19th-century European
art and 17th- to mid-20th-century American art. The Library Exhibition Hall is one of the world's great
independent research libraries, with more than eleven million items spanning the 11th to 21st centuries. And
last but certainly not least are 120 acres of specialized beautiful botanical gardens to explore.

Highlights

Here are some of the "must see" items at Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens.

 The Blue Boy by Thomas Gainsborough

 Desert Garden
 Japanese Garden

 🌐 Website
 🎟️$25+ per person
 📍 1151 Oxford Road San Marino, CA 91108

Getty Center

Art Museum
The Getty Center museum has long been a staple of the Los Angeles area. If it’s not on your to-do list, it
should be! Founded in 1997, the Getty Center museum houses magnificent European paintings, drawings,
sculptures, illuminated manuscripts, decorative arts, and photography — It’s one of the best collections of
artworks in the world.

Highlights

Here are some of the "must see" items at Getty Center .

 The Musicians' Brawl by Georges de La Tour

 Spring by Édouard Manet
 17th century Joke Glass (Scherzgefäss)

 🌐 Website
 🎟️$0 per person
 📍 1200 Getty Center Dr, Los Angeles, CA 90049

Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)

Art Museum

LACMA is the largest art museum in the western United States, with a collection of more than 142,000
objects spanning the history of art from ancient times to the present. In addition to incredible art exhibits,
LACMA features film and concert series. LACMA is currently undergoing a massive redesign scheduled to
be completed in 2024. While many of the original permanent collection galleries are closed, art from the
museum’s collection will continue to be on view in exhibitions in BCAM and the Resnick Pavilion.

Highlights

Here are some of the "must see" items at Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) .

 Urban Light by Chris Burden

 Weeping Woman with Handkerchief by Pablo Picasso
 La Trahison des images (Ceci n’est pas une pipe) by René Magritte

 🌐 Website
 🎟️$25 per person
 📍 5905 Wilshire Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90036

Forest Lawn Museum

Art Museum

The Forest Lawn Museums is actually located nearby in on Glendale. The museum displays a permanent
collection, as well as impressive rotating exhibits. The permanent collection includes one of the largest
stained glass collections in North America with 1,000+ pieces. The museum first opened its doors in 1952.
The founder, Dr. Hubert Eaton, wrote that the park should be "a place where artists study and sketch; were
school teachers bring happy children to see the things they read of in books."

Highlights
Here are some of the "must see" items at Forest Lawn Museum.

 The Crucifixion by Jan Styka

 The Last Supper (a stained glass re-creation)
 The Poet's Windows

 🌐 Website
 🎟️$0 per person
 📍 1712 S Glendale Ave, Glendale, CA 91205

Flight Path Learning Center & Museum

Specialty Museum

The Flight Path Learning Center & Museums houses objects and information on the history of aviation.
You'll find scale models of aircraft, flight attendant uniforms, and general airline memorabilia such as
playing cards, china, magazines, signs, even a TWA gate information sign. The museum also has more rare
items such as aircraft manufacture company newsletters/magazines and industry magazines dating back to
WWII and before.

Highlights

Here are some of the "must see" items at Flight Path Learning Center & Museum .

 The Spirit of Seventy" DC-3

 Aircraft scale models
 Flight attendant uniforms

 🌐 Website
 🎟️$5 per person
 📍 6661 Imperial Hwy, Los Angeles, CA 90045

Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising Museum

Specialty Museum

The museum is located on the ground floor of the Los Angeles campus of the Fashion Institute of Design
and Merchandising. It is home to a collection of 12,000+ costumes, accessories and textiles from the 18th
century through the present day. The museum's collection includes film and theater costume as well as an
early Hollywood Costume Collection on loan from the City of Los Angeles.

Highlights

Here are some of the "must see" items at Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising Museum.

 Two-Piece Day Dress c. 1872–1874

 Egyptomania Textile Swatch c. 1923
  🌐 Website
 🎟️$0 per person
 📍 919 S Grand Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90015

Travel Town Museum

Specialty Museum

The Travel Town Museum, located in Griffith Park, educates people about railroad history. The museum
specifically explores the history of railroad transportation in the western United States from 1880 to the
1930s. The collection includes 43 full-scale railroad engines and cars.

Highlights

Here are some of the "must see" items at Travel Town Museum.

 Heisler Locomotive
 Shay
 Union Pacific Sleeping Car

 🌐 Website
 🎟️$0 per person
 📍 5200 Zoo Dr, Los Angeles, CA 90027

SS Lane Victory

Historic Site

The SS Lane Victory is an American Victory-class cargo ship. After being used in World War II, the Korean
War and Vietnam War, the ship was preserved in 1989 to serve as a museum. The ship was also designated a
U.S. National Historic Landmark. The best way to explore the Lane Victory on a self-paced walking tour.
You'll discover how the Merchant Marines of the World War II era lived and worked. The site also has two
complete museums packed with videos, history, anecdotes and artifacts.

Highlights

Here are some of the "must see" items at SS Lane Victory.

 Working prop-engine used in the filming of “The Sand Pebbles” (1966)

 Visit the bridge
 Living quarters

 🌐 Website
 🎟️$7 per person
 📍 3011 Miner St, San Pedro, CA 90731

Social and Public Art Resource Center (SPARC)

Cultural Center
The non-profit Social and Public Art Resource Center (SPARC) is a community arts center located in
Venice. The center is involved in and sponsors many community projects and workshops such as murals and
other works of public art. SPARC is also home to the Durón Gallery. The gallery hosts both visual and
performance exhibitions "that inspire social change and amplify the voices of marginalized communities."

Highlights

Here are some of the "must see" items at Social and Public Art Resource Center (SPARC).

 The Box Project

 Down the Rabbit Hole by Mercedes Gertz
 De Colores Means All of Us: Art and the Dialectics of Coalition Building in Communities of Color
Curated by Claudia Huiza

 🌐 Website
 🎟️$0 per person
 📍 685 Venice Blvd, Venice, CA 90291

Southwest Museum of the American Indian

History Museum

The Southwest Museum of the American Indian is located in the Mt. Washington neighborhood of Los
Angeles. It is a museum, library, and archive. The museum's collection is the second largest collection of
Native American objects in the United States. The artifacts on display range in age from prehistoric to the
present, documenting Native history and culture in the Americas. The collection also includes pre-Hispanic,
Spanish colonial, Latino, and Western American art and artifacts.

Highlights

Here are some of the "must see" items at Southwest Museum of the American Indian.

 The Balance of Power on the American Frontier

 Making a Big Noise: The Explorations of Charles Lummis
 Imagined West Studios

 🌐 Website
 🎟️$14 per person
 📍 234 Museum Dr Mt. Washington, Los Angeles, California

Skirball Cultural Center

Cultural Center

The Skirball Cultural Center is an educational institution focused on sustaining Jewish heritage and
American democratic ideals. The center is quite large and includes a museum, a performing arts center,
conference halls, classrooms, libraries, courtyards, gardens, and a café. The museum's collection includes
30,000+ objects such as archaeological artifacts from biblical and later historical periods, Jewish ceremonial
objects, Old World Jewish objects, fine artworks in a variety of media, and more.
Highlights

Here are some of the "must see" items at Skirball Cultural Center.

 Jewish ceremonial objects

 Old World Jewish objects
 Archaeological artifacts

 🌐 Website
 🎟️$12 per person
 📍 2701 N Sepulveda Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90049

El Pueblo de Los Ángeles Historical Monument

Historic Site

El Pueblo de Los Angeles Historical Monument is a historic district located in the oldest section of Los
Angeles. In 1953, the 44-acre park area was designated a state historic monument and in 1972, it was listed
on the National Register of Historic Places. Today, the famed historic district is home to many of Los
Angeles's major historic sites (including ones we've previously listed on this page).

Highlights

Here are some of the "must see" items at El Pueblo de Los Ángeles Historical Monument.

 Pico House
 Old Plaza Firehouse
 Olvera Street

 🌐 Website
 🎟️$0 per person
 📍 125 Paseo De La Plaza, Los Angeles, CA 90012

Ripley's Believe It or Not!

Private Museum

We think it's safe to say everyone is familiar with Ripley's Believe It or Not! But did you know that Ripley
first displayed his collection to the public at the Chicago World's Fair in 1933? Back then, it was called
Ripley's Odditorium and over two million visitors came to explore Ripley's bizarre oddities. Today, there are
Ripley's Believe It or Not! museums all over the world. The museum in Hollywood is home to 13 galleries
of oddities.

Highlights

Here are some of the "must see" items at Ripley's Believe It or Not!.

 Cyclops Lamb
 Visual Illusions
 A Shrunken Head
  🌐 Website
 🎟️$26 per person
 📍 6780 Hollywood Blvd, Hollywood, CA 90028

Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater (REDCAT)

Art Museum

Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater, also know as REDCAT, is an interdisciplinary contemporary arts
center located inside the Walt Disney Concert Hall complex in downtown Los Angeles. The art center
consists of a 3,000-square-foot gallery space with rotating exhibitions, a 200–270-seat flexible black box
theater, and a lounge cafe/bar and a bookstore. REDCAT focuses on innovative visual, performing and
media arts.

Highlights

Here are some of the "must see" items at Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater (REDCAT).

 Adelita Husni Bey: CHIRON

 Michael Rakowitz: Dispute Between the Tamarisk and the Date Palm
 Morgan Fisher / Passing Time

 🌐 Website
 🎟️$0 per person
 📍 631 W 2nd St, Los Angeles, CA 90012

Psychiatry: An Industry of Death Museum

Private Museum

Located in Hollywood, the Psychiatry: An Industry of Death Museum houses another unique collection. The
museum is owned and operated by the Citizens Commission on Human Rights, an anti-psychiatry
organization founded by the Church of Scientology. The many exhibits document how psychiatry is an
industry driven by profit and furthermore that its "help "often results in the death of the patient. These
exhibits include physical psychiatric treatments, such as restraints, psychoactive drugs, electroconvulsive
therapy and psychosurgery including lobotomy.

Highlights

Here are some of the "must see" items at Psychiatry: An Industry of Death Museum.

 physical psychiatric treatments

 electroconvulsive therapy
 psychosurgery including lobotomy

 🌐 Website
 🎟️$0 per person
  📍 6616 Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90028

Point Fermin Lighthouse

Historic Site

The Point Fermin Lighthouse, built in 1874, was the first navigational light into the San Pedro Bay. It was
built in an early Victorian architectural style called the Stick Style. It is characterized by its gabled roofs,
horizontal siding, decorative cross beams and hand-carved porch railings and is simpler than the later high
Victorian period.

Highlights

Here are some of the "must see" items at Point Fermin Lighthouse .

 Stick Style Architecture

 Gabled Roofs
 Horizontal Siding

 🌐 Website
 🎟️$5 per person
 📍 807 W Paseo Del Mar, San Pedro, CA 90731

Old Plaza Firehouse

Historic Site

The Old Plaza Firehouse was built in 1884 making it the oldest fire station in the city of Los Angeles. You
can find it near Olvera Street in the Los Angeles Plaza Historic District. After being among other things a
cigar store, poolroom, seedy hotel, the building was restored in the 1950s and opened as the firefighting
museum in 1960. The museum's collection includes helmets, photos, and firefighting equipment of the late
19th and early 20th centuries.

Highlights

Here are some of the "must see" items at Old Plaza Firehouse.

 firefighting equipment of the late 19th and early 20th centuries

 helmets
 photos

 🌐 Website
 🎟️$0 per person
 📍 501 N Los Angeles St, Los Angeles, CA 90012

Oran Z Pan African Black Facts & Wax Museum

Private Museum
The Oran Z Pan African Black Facts & Wax Museum has one of the world's largest collections of Black
Americana artifacts including thousands of postcards, sheet music, records, videos, books, stamps, coins,
silverware, advertising, dolls, sculptures, signs, kitchen collections, baseball cards, first editions, quilts,
African artifacts, slavery items, fine art, folk art, wax figures, autographs, cookie jars, salt shakers, pipes,
games, toys, movies, jewelry, plaques, KKK paraphernalia, Adinkras and authentic antique Kente cloths.

Highlights

Here are some of the "must see" items at Oran Z Pan African Black Facts & Wax Museum.

 Adinkras and authentic antique Kente cloths

 African artifacts
 Advertising

 🌐 Website
 🎟️$0 per person
 📍 3742 W Martin Luther King Jr Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90008

ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives

Library

ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives at the University of Southern California Libraries has the largest
collection of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender materials in the world and is the oldest existing LGBT
organization in the US. ONE Archives' is home to over two million items such as periodicals, books, film,
video and audio recordings, photographs, artworks, clothing, costumes, and buttons, organizational records,
and personal papers. The organizers also run a small museum space devoted to LGBT art and history in
West Hollywood.

Highlights

Here are some of the "must see" items at ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives.

 Liberate the Bar! Queer Nightlife, Activism, and Spacemaking

 The Gutter Art of Stephen Varble: Genderqueer Performance Art in the 1970s Photographs by Greg
Day
 In Search of Baba Singh

 🌐 Website
 🎟️$5 per person
 📍 909 W Adams Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90007

Neutra VDL Studio and Residences

Historic Site

The Neutra VDL Studio and Residences of famed modernist architect Richard Neutra is under the
stewardship of the College of Environmental Design and Department of Architecture at Cal Poly Pomona.
The House II is open for public tours on Saturdays from 11am to 3pm. Tours are given by Cal Poly Pomona
Architecture students and are typically 30 minutes long.
Highlights

Here are some of the "must see" items at Neutra VDL Studio and Residences.

 Mark Cottle: The Cost of Money

 Tu casa es mi casa
 Cornerstone by Les Frères Chapuisat

 🌐 Website
 🎟️$15 per person
 📍 2300 Silver Lake Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90039

Nethercutt Collection

Specialty Museum

The Nethercutt Collection is located in Sylmar. Its collection is centered around automobiles and is one of
America's five greatest automobile museums. The museum has on display 130+ of the world’s greatest
antique, vintage, classic and special interest automobiles. But it isn't just cars, they are also home to
mechanical musical instruments, including orchestrions, player pianos and music boxes, antique furniture,
and two older-model railroad cars.

Highlights

Here are some of the "must see" items at Nethercutt Collection.

 Antique, vintage, classic and special interest automobiles

 Mechanical musical instruments
 Player pianos

 🌐 Website
 🎟️$0 per person
 📍 15151 Bledsoe St, Sylmar, CA 91342

Museum of Tolerance

Specialty Museum

The Museum of Tolerance (MOT), is a multimedia museum that explores racism and prejudice around the
world. The museum was built by the Simon Wiesenthal Center, named after its founder Simon Wiesenthal, a
Holocaust survivor and Nazi hunter. The museum's exhibit "The Holocaust Section" is its most visited.

Highlights

Here are some of the "must see" items at Museum of Tolerance.

 The Holocaust Section

 Tolerancenter
 Finding Our Families, Finding Ourselves
  🌐 Website
 🎟️$16 per person
 📍 9786 W Pico Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90035

Museum of the San Fernando Valley

History Museum

The Museum of the San Fernando Valley is an educational and cultural institution. They focus on acquiring,
displaying, and preserving the artifacts, documents and records of the San Fernando Valley. The Museum
offers ongoing programs such as Historic Walking Tours, Speaker Series, Horses Across The Valley and
much more!

Highlights

Here are some of the "must see" items at Museum of the San Fernando Valley.

 WWII History and the San Fernando Valley

 Edgar Rice Burroughs & Tarzan® & Centennial of Tarzana Ranch
 Sculptor Henry Van Wolf

 🌐 Website
 🎟️$0 per person
 📍 18860 Nordhoff St #204, Northridge, CA 91324

Museum of Jurassic Technology

Private Museum

The Museum of Jurassic Technology is home to a very unique collection of objects and more than thirty
permanent exhibits. The objects are a mixture of artistic, scientific, ethnographic, and historic items, as well
as some unclassifiable exhibits. It is reminiscent of the cabinets of curiosities that were around in the 16th-
century, before the modern natural-history museums.

Highlights

Here are some of the "must see" items at Museum of Jurassic Technology.

 The Delani/Sonnabend Halls

 Tell the Bees
 The Garden of Eden on Wheels

 🌐 Website
 🎟️$10 per person
 📍 9341 Venice Blvd, Culver City, CA 90232

Museum of Death
Specialty Museum

Founded in June, 1995 by J. D. Healy and Catherine Shultz, The Museum of Death is a strange place. It all
started because the founder's unique hobby -- they would write to serial killers they were interested in, and
then show off the artwork their pen pals had created at a specialist show once a year. They eventually
collected so many materials they decided to make a museum. The museum displays a wide variety of art and
artifacts surrounding the subject of death, from baby coffins to letters and artwork from various serial killers
(and much much more!)

Highlights

Here are some of the "must see" items at Museum of Death.

 A Recreation of the Heaven's Gate Mass Suicide

 The Head of French Serial Killer Henri Landru
 Thanatron, one of the original suicide machines built by Jack Kevorkian

 🌐 Website
 🎟️$17 per person
 📍 6031 Hollywood Blvd, Hollywood, CA 90028

Muller House

Historic Site

After being moved three times since it was originally built in the late 1800s, the Muller House has found a
permanent home on a bluff overlooking San Pedro Bay. The museum is open on the first and second Sunday
of the month and public tours are given from 1 to 4pm (the last tour is at 3:15).

Highlights

Here are some of the "must see" items at Muller House.

 Muller family memorabilia

 Early modernist architecture

 🌐 Website
 🎟️$3 per person
 📍 1542 S Beacon St, San Pedro, CA 90731

Mission San Fernando Rey de España

Historic Site

Mission San Fernando Rey de España was founded on September 8th, 1797 by Padre Fermin Francisco de
Lasuén. The mission was named for St. Ferdinand, King of Spain (1217-1252). It fell into disrepair after the
1812 earthquakes and the digging up of the church floor by gold prospectors when gold was discovered
nearby. Over the years some to the structures have been restored including the church, monastery and some
quarters around the quadrangle. The church is active and mass is held every Sunday at 9:00 and 10:30am.
Highlights

Here are some of the "must see" items at Mission San Fernando Rey de España.

 Church
 Monastery
 Quarters around the quadrangle

 🌐 Website
 🎟️$0 per person
 📍 15151 San Fernando Mission Blvd, Mission Hills, CA 91345

Lummis House and Gardens

Historic Site

Lummis House, also known as El Alisal, is located on the edge of Arroyo Seco in northeast Los Angeles.
The house's name means "alder grove" in Spanish. It is a late 19th and early 20th-century Rustic American
Craftsman river stone house built by Charles Fletcher Lummis. The museum is open to the public for tours
on Saturday and Sunday from 10:00 to 3:00.

Highlights

Here are some of the "must see" items at Lummis House and Gardens .

 Drought-tolerant and California native plants

 El Alisal California Sycamore trees
 Lummis's collection of artifacts

 🌐 Website
 🎟️$0 per person
 📍 200 E Ave 43, Los Angeles, CA 90031

Los Encinos State Historic Park

Historic Site

Los Encinos State Historic Park is located at the corner of Balboa and Ventura Blvd. in Encino. The five-
acre park is home to the original nine-room de la Ossa Adobe, the two-story limestone Garnier building, a
blacksmith shop, a natural spring, and a pond.

Highlights

Here are some of the "must see" items at Los Encinos State Historic Park.

 The Blacksmith's Shop

 The Parlor
 Citrus Grove
  🌐 Website
 🎟️$0 per person
 📍 16756 Moorpark St, Encino, CA 91436

Highland Park Police Station Museum

Specialty Museum

The Los Angeles Police Museum is located in the Highland Park Police Station, the city's oldest surviving
police station. The building was built in 1925 and after years of neglect, it was salvaged and restored and is
now home to the museum. Through its collection of photographs, uniforms, badges, squad cars, a paddy
wagon, and bullet-riddled vehicles the museum tells the story of LAPD from its beginnings in 1869 to the
now.

Highlights

Here are some of the "must see" items at Highland Park Police Station Museum .

 Squad cars
 Paddy wagon
 Bullet-riddled vehicles

 🌐 Website
 🎟️$10 per person
 📍 6045 York Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90042

Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust

History Museum

Founded in 1961 by Holocaust Survivors, the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust (LAMOTH) is an
important museum located in LA's Pan Pacific Park. LAMOTH's collection of personally donated original
documents and artifacts is displayed in a way that lets each piece tell its own story as objectively as possible.
Interestingly, as you explore the various rooms you'll find that they very purposefully get darker as you
explore the ones containing the darker parts of this history.

Highlights

Here are some of the "must see" items at Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust.

 Sobibor Death Camp Scale Model

 Tree of Testimony
 18 Camps Interactive

 🌐 Website
 🎟️$0 per person
 📍 100 The Grove Dr, Los Angeles, CA 90036

Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery

Art Museum

Established in 1954, The Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery (LAMAG) is the city's primary exhibition
venue. Located in Barnsdall Art Park in Los Angeles, the gallery's rotating exhibitions include painting,
sculpture, photography, architecture, video, installation, design, and more. They focus on representing
underrepresented local artists whose work may not otherwise have found a platform.

Highlights

Here are some of the "must see" items at Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery.

 To View a Plastic Flower

 Loitering is delightful
 Offal

 🌐 Website
 🎟️$0 per person
 📍 4800 Hollywood Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90027

Los Angeles Maritime Museum

Specialty Museum

Located at Sixth Street at Harbor Boulevard in San Pedro, the Los Angeles Maritime Museum is a non-profit
maritime museum and the largest maritime museum on the West Coast. The museum's exhibits include a
history of commercial diving in Los Angeles Harbor, a Navy Hall that features large ship models such as the
SS Poseidon model from the 1972 disaster film The Poseidon Adventure, chronicles of the San Pedro
fishing industry, and models of merchant ships such as the Silverpalm and square-riggers.

Highlights

Here are some of the "must see" items at Los Angeles Maritime Museum.

 SS Poseidon Model
 Merchant Ship Models
 Ham Radio Station

 🌐 Website
 🎟️$5 per person
 📍 600 Sampson Way (Berth 84), San Pedro, CA 90731

Los Angeles Live Steamers Railroad Museum

Specialty Museum

Los Angeles Live Steamers Railroad Museum promotes live steam and scale model railroad technology by
offering the public fun train rides and educating guests about railroad history and lore. Located in Griffith
Park in Los Angeles, the museum is open from 11am to 3pm every Sunday. While the museum is free, there
is a suggested donation fee of $3 per person for the train rides.
Highlights

Here are some of the "must see" items at Los Angeles Live Steamers Railroad Museum.

 Walt Disney’s Barn

 Stationary Steam Plant
 Santa Fe Caboose

 🌐 Website
 🎟️$0 per person
 📍 5202 Zoo Dr, Los Angeles, CA 90027

Los Angeles Fire Department Museum and Memorial

Specialty Museum

The Los Angeles Fire Department actually operates two different museums, the Hollywood Museum and the
Harbor Museum. The museums are home to old fire engines and fire apparatus, with some artifacts dating
back to the 1880s. The Hollywood Museum also has a reference library and fire safety learning center.

Highlights

Here are some of the "must see" items at Los Angeles Fire Department Museum and Memorial.

 Old fire engines

 Fire apparatus
 Artifacts dating back to the 1880s

 🌐 Website
 🎟️$0 per person
 📍 1355 N Cahuenga Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90028

Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE)

Art Museum

Lace was founded in 1978 by a core group of 13 artists. Today it is a nonprofit venue that exhibits and
advocates for innovations in art-making and public engagement. In the last 40 years, LACE has presented
the work of more than 5,000 artists in 3,000 programs and events.

Highlights

Here are some of the "must see" items at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE).

 Paroxysm of Sublime
 The Archival Impulse: 40 Years at LACE
 To Oblivion: The Speculator’s Eden by Sandra de la Loza
  🌐 Website
 🎟️$0 per person
 📍 6522 Hollywood Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90028

LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes

Cultural Center

LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes is located near the site where Los Angeles was founded in 1781. Their campus
includes two historic and newly renovated buildings, the Vickrey-Brunswig Building and Plaza House,
which are surrounded by a large public garden. The museum collection and exhibitions explore the stories,
history, cultures, values, and traditions of Mexicans, Mexican Americans, and all Latinos in Los Angeles
and Southern California.

Highlights

Here are some of the "must see" items at LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes.

 Calle Principal
 LA Starts Here!
 The View From Here: Architecture as Witness to History.

 🌐 Website
 🎟️$0 per person
 📍 501 N Main St, Los Angeles, CA 90012

Korean Cultural Center

History Museum

The Korean Cultural Center has many facilities including a museum, art gallery, auditorium, library, and
film archives and screening room. The museum, located on the first floor, displays a vast collection of
historical and contemporary Korean artifacts along with a variety of replicas of historical pieces from
Korea's dynastic kingdoms. The collection also includes embroidery, crafts, pottery, crowns, musical
instruments and artifacts from the Three Kingdoms Period and the Joseon Dynasty.

Highlights

Here are some of the "must see" items at Korean Cultural Center .

 Embroidery
 Pottery
 Artifacts from the Three Kingdoms Period

 🌐 Website
 🎟️$0 per person
 📍 Korean Cultural Center, Los Angeles

Judson Studios
Historic Site

Located in the Highland Park area of Los Angeles, Judson Studios is a fine arts studio specializing in stained
glass. In 1969, the Judson Studios building was named a Historic-Cultural Landmark by the City of Los
Angeles. Later, in 1999, it was listed in the National Register of Historic Places. Public Tours of Judson
Studios take place every second Thursday of the month at 2:15 pm. The tour lasts about 90 minutes.

Highlights

Here are some of the "must see" items at Judson Studios.

 Stained Glass
 Kilnformed Glass

 🌐 Website
 🎟️$18 per person
 📍 200 S Ave 66, Los Angeles, CA 90042

Italian American Museum of Los Angeles

History Museum

The Italian American Museum of Los Angeles (IAMLA), located in Downtown Los Angeles, is an
interactive museum that documents the history and contributions of Italian Americans in Southern California
and the nation. The IAMLA’s collection contains 6,000+ artifacts, photographs and archival documents that
span from the 18th century to recent history.

Highlights

Here are some of the "must see" items at Italian American Museum of Los Angeles.

 Italians in Hollywood
 Pioneers
 Dago!

 🌐 Website
 🎟️$0 per person
 📍 644 N Main St, Los Angeles, CA 90012

Human Resources Los Angeles

Specialty Museum

Located in Los Angeles's Chinatown, Human Resources Los Angeles (HRLA) is a non-profit contemporary
and conceptual art space focused on performative and other underexposed modes of expression. Be sure to
check out the calendar before your visit, as opening hours vary with each exhibition and event.

Highlights

Here are some of the "must see" items at Human Resources Los Angeles.
  Muscle House Cookbook (Part 2)
 Gong Gaada • Glochids • lucky dragons
 The Revolting Lumpen! a classical opera reboot

 🌐 Website
 🎟️$0 per person
 📍 410 Cottage Home St, Los Angeles, CA 90012

Hollywood Wax Museum

Specialty Museum

The Hollywood Wax Museum is located on Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood's tourist district. It features
wax replicas of A-list stars, classic entertainers, and legendary singers. There is also a Chamber of Horrors
which features classic and current movie monsters. Use provided props and costumes while taking a few
selfies with your favorite celebrities.

Highlights

Here are some of the "must see" items at Hollywood Wax Museum.

 A-list Stars
 Chamber of Horrors
 Legendary Singers

 🌐 Website
 🎟️$36 per person
 📍 6767 Hollywood Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90028

The Hollywood Museum

Specialty Museum

The Hollywood Museum is housed in the historic Max Factor Building on Highland Avenue (Max Factor
was Hollywood’s Makeup King during the Golden Era). The four floored museum has an interesting
collection of 10,000+ one-of-a-kind show biz treasures. It includes authentic costumes, props, photographs,
scripts, stars’ car collections and personal artifacts, posters, and vintage memorabilia from favorite films and
TV shows.

Highlights

Here are some of the "must see" items at The Hollywood Museum.

 Marilyn Monroe’s million dollar dress

 Elvis’ personal bathrobe
 Hannibal Lecter’s jail cell from Silence of the Lambs

 🌐 Website
  🎟️$15 per person
 📍 1660 N Highland Ave, Hollywood, CA 90028

Hollywood Heritage Museum

Specialty Museum

The Hollywood Heritage Museum tells the story of the early Hollywood motion picture industry and the
historic Hollywood community. The museum itself is housed in the oldest existing motion picture
production building in Hollywood. The collection features archival photographs from the silent era of
motion pictures, movie props, historic documents and other movie-related memorabilia. Its also home to
many historic photographs and postcards of the streets, buildings and residences of Hollywood during its
golden age.

Highlights

Here are some of the "must see" items at Hollywood Heritage Museum.

 The Oakie Gallery

 The Hollywood Miniatures

 🌐 Website
 🎟️$7 per person
 📍 2100 N Highland Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90046

Hollywood Bowl Museum

Specialty Museum

The Hollywood Bowl Museum (formerly known as the Tea Room) is located at the bottom of Peppertree
Lane. It features many historical exhibits with objects such as vintage photographs, vintage sound
equipment, newspaper clippings, postcards, live video recordings, and live audio recordings. It, of course,
also features memorabilia and artifacts about the history of the Hollywood Bowl including Hollywood Bowl
Hall of Fame.

Highlights

Here are some of the "must see" items at Hollywood Bowl Museum .

 Summer Nights: Jazz at the Bowl

 Hollywood Bowl: Music For Everyone
 Beatles at the Bowl

 🌐 Website
 🎟️$0 per person
 📍 2301 N Highland Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90068

Heritage Square Museum

Historic Site

Heritage Square Museum is a living history and open-air architecture museum located in the Montecito
Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles. Through historical architectural examples, the museum tells the story
of the unprecedented growth and development that took place between 1850 to 1950 in Southern California.
On weekends, tours take visitors on an exploration of Southern California history, architecture and culture as
interpreted through the many historic structures.

Highlights

Here are some of the "must see" items at Heritage Square Museum.

 Valley Knudsen Garden Residence

 James and Bessie Hale House
 John Ford House

 🌐 Website
 🎟️$10 per person
 📍 3800 Homer St, Los Angeles, CA 90031

Guinness World Records Museum

Specialty Museum

If you grew up reading the Guinness World Records books you are going to love this museum. Check out
displays on the most amazing record-breaking facts and feats. The museum is also very interactive with lots
of games and photo ops. You'll get the chance to stand next to the tallest man ever, weigh yourself against
the heaviest man, meet the best-selling video game character, learn about the man who hiccuped for 69
years, and so much more.

Highlights

Here are some of the "must see" items at Guinness World Records Museum.

 The tallest man ever

 Best-selling video game character
 The man who hiccuped for 69 years

 🌐 Website
 🎟️$36 per person
 📍 6764 Hollywood Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90028

Grier Musser Museum

Historic Site

The Grier Musser Museum is a turn-of-the-century historic Queen Anne house located near downtown Los
Angeles and close to the new Red Line Subway Station. The museum displays fascinating antique
collections in monthly holiday exhibits throughout the year. Explore the architectural features of the house,
such as, the intricate woodwork and the fun themed antique collections.
Highlights

Here are some of the "must see" items at Grier Musser Museum.

 Intricate woodwork
 Antique collections
 Special holiday exhibits

 🌐 Website
 🎟️$10 per person
 📍 403 S Bonnie Brae St, Los Angeles, CA 90057

Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation

Art Museum

The Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation is a truly unique space. Their collection of modern and
contemporary art is displayed in a "living with art—house museum." There are more than 400 works of art
on display. The collection includes works by European Modernists including Cézanne, Picasso, and
Kandinsky, Surrealist works by Max Ernst, Joan Miró, and René Magritte and many more. Guided public
tours are available by appointment only and advanced reservations are required.

Highlights

Here are some of the "must see" items at Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation.

 Works by Picasso
 Works by Cézanne
 Works by Kandinsky

 🌐 Website
 🎟️$0 per person
 📍 265 N Carolwood Dr, Los Angeles, CA 90077

Franklin D. Murphy Sculpture Garden

Art Museum

The Franklin D. Murphy Sculpture Garden is one of the most distinguished outdoor sculpture installations in
the country. The sculpture garden was founded in 1967. The park-like space spans more than five acres of
UCLA’s campus and has on display over 70 sculptures by artists such as Hans Arp, Deborah Butterfield,
Alexander Calder, Barbara Hepworth, Jacques Lipchitz, Henry Moore, Auguste Rodin, and David Smith.

Highlights

Here are some of the "must see" items at Franklin D. Murphy Sculpture Garden.

 Gerhard Marcks, Maja (viewed in situ), 1941

 Hans Arp, Fruit hybride dit la Pagode [Hybrid Fruit Called Pagoda], 1934
 Auguste Rodin, The Walking Man, 1905
  🌐 Website
 🎟️$0 per person
 📍 245 Charles E Young Dr E, Los Angeles, CA 90095

The Fowler Museum at UCLA

Art Museum

The Fowler is a museum on the campus of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). The Fowler
explores art and material culture primarily from Africa, Asia and the Pacific, and the Americas. The
museum's collections includes 120,000+ art and ethnographic and 600,000 archaeological objects from the
ancient, traditional, and contemporary cultures of Africa, Native and Latin America, and Asia and the
Pacific. They generally have three to six art exhibitions on display at a time.

Highlights

Here are some of the "must see" items at The Fowler Museum at UCLA.

 Yoruba Beaded Arts from Southern Nigeria

 Pre-Columbian Ceramic Vessels from Peru
 Batik Textiles of Indonesia

 🌐 Website
 🎟️$0 per person
 📍 308 Charles E Young Dr N, Los Angeles, CA 90024

Fort MacArthur Museum

War Museum

The Fort MacArthur Museum is dedicated to the preservation and interpretation of the history of Fort
MacArthur, a U.S. Army post that guarded the Los Angeles harbor from 1914 to 1974. Established in 1985,
the museum galleries contain a variety of exhibits including: the history of Los Angeles harbor defenses,
home-front activities in the greater Los Angeles area during the World Wars, Civil Defense, American
Pacific Theater military campaigns, early American Air Defenses and the important role of Los Angeles as a
military port for both the Army and the Navy.

Highlights

Here are some of the "must see" items at Fort MacArthur Museum.

 History of Los Angeles harbor defenses

 Civil Defense
 American Pacific Theater military campaigns