Museums

Los Angeles is full of all kinds of museums and galleries. Here are some of the best ones.

Our Favourites

Getty Center

The Getty Center is an impressive artistic space that houses outstanding works of many different forms of art.

Getty Villa

Getty Villa is a magnificent recreation of an ancient Roman country house that keeps 7,000 years of ancient art in its collections.

California Science Center

The California Science Center (also known as ScienCenter) is a dynamic museum that allows visitors to enjoy the wonders of science.

Contemporary Art Museums

Museum of Contemporary Art

The Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) has three different branches that showcase pieces of American and European contemporary art.

The Broad

The Broad is a modern and striking contemporary art museum featuring some of the most outstanding post-war works from around the world.

Other Museums

La Brea Tar Pits

At the La Brea Tar Pits, you can travel back in time to prehistoric Los Angeles and follow the footsteps of animals that became extinct.

Grammy Museum

The Grammy Museum is a dynamic space that seeks to inspire its visitors through different interactive exhibits related to the world of music.

Los Angeles County Museum of Art

The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, also known by the acronym LACMA, is the largest museum in the west of the US and houses over 150,000 works.

Natural History Museum

The Los Angeles Natural History Museum gives visitors the chance to explore nature through a wide range of exhibitions.

Madame Tussauds

Glamour, elegance, history and culture. Inaugurated in 2009, the Madame Tussauds Wax Museum in Los Angeles exhibits over 100 wax figures of famous people.

Ripley's Believe It or Not!

Shrunken heads, six-legged pigs... Discover weird and wonderful objects from all over the world at this fascinating museum.