Museums
Aquarium of the Pacific
100 Aquarium Way, Los Angeles, CA, 90802
562-590-3100
The puffins invariably draw a crowd, as do the psychedelic sea jellies, the Tolkienesque sea dragons, and especially the touching ponds…
Website: http://www.aquariumofpacific.org
Neighborhood: Long Beach, Los Angeles
Category: Arts & Entertainment, Local Attractions, Museums, Zoos
Automobile Driving Museum
610 Lairport St., Los Angeles, CA, 90245
310-909-0950
If you want to understand why cars end up in museums in the first place, motor to the Automobile Driving Museum in El Segundo, where docents take guests for a Sunday spin in one of the 130 restored vehicles from the collection.
Website: http://www.automobiledrivingmuseum.org
Neighborhood: El Segundo
Category: Arts & Entertainment, Best of LA, Best of LA 2012: Do, Best of LA: 2012, Best of LA: Do, Museums
Autry National Center
4700 Western Heritage Way, Los Angeles, CA, 90027
323-667-2000
The Autry National Center offers a look at the American West with ongoing and special exhibitions for all ages…
Website: http://theautry.org
Neighborhood: Glendale, Los Angeles
Category: Arts & Entertainment, Baby, Museums, Shopping
Bailey Children’s Museum
301 S. Euclid St., La Habra, CA, 90631
562-905-9793
Sure, Kidspace in Pasadena is nifty, but the Bailey Children’s Museum at La Habra is really hands-on…
Website: http://lahabracity.com
Category: Arts & Entertainment, Baby, Museums, Shopping
Bay Cities Italian Deli & Bakery
1517 Lincoln Blvd., Los Angeles, CA, 90401
310-395-8279
With the still warm loaves of ciabatta baked in batches every few hours, the mix of Boar’s Head and imported meats…
Website: http://bcdeli.com
Neighborhood: Los Angeles, Santa Monica
Category: Arts & Entertainment, Deli, Italian, Museums, Restaurants
Cabrillo Marine Aquarium
3720 Stephen M. White Dr, Los Angeles, CA, 90731
310-548-7562
The Cabrillo Marine Aquarium helps adventurers ages two to four become mini Cousteaus…
Website: http://www.cabrillomarineaquarium.org
Category: Arts & Entertainment, Museums
California Science Center
700 Exposition Park Dr., Los Angeles, CA, 90037
323-724-3623
Name a child who doesn’t like playing with goo. So it’s practically guaranteed yours will plunge into lessons on how to concoct the slimy stuff at…
Website: http://www.californiasciencecenter.org
Neighborhood: Exposition Park
Category: Arts & Entertainment, Museums
California Science Center
39th and Figueroa Sts., Los Angeles, CA, 90011
323-724-3623
For the thrifty the Getty Center is its most appealing after five on Saturdays, when the $15 parking fee—essentially the cost of admission—is waived…
Website: http://www.californiasciencecenter.org
Neighborhood: Exposition Park
Category: Arts & Entertainment, Museums
Case Study House No. 22
1635 Woods Dr., Hollywood, CA, 90069
208-429-1058
Set high in the Hollywood Hills, the midcentury-modern Case Study House No. 22, aka the Stahl House, offers a better-than-Runyon view of the city
Website: http://www.stahlhouse.com
Category: Best of LA, Best of LA 2015: Do, Best of LA: 2015, Best of LA: Do, Museums
First Fridays
900 Exposition Blvd., Los Angeles, CA, 90007
213-763-3466
The First Fridays series at the Natural History Museum in Exposition Park balances the educational (preparty lectures are fascinating) with the unorthodox (loud bands in a hallowed space)…
Website: http://www.nhm.org
Neighborhood: Historic South-Central, Los Angeles
Category: Arts & Entertainment, Local Attractions, Museums
Garden Terrace Café
Getty Center, 1200 Getty Center Dr., Los Angeles, CA, 90049
310-440-7300
At the Getty’s Garden Terrace Café. cool breezes swirl through pillars of Italian stone…
Website: http://www.getty.edu/visit/see_do/eat_shop.html
Neighborhood: Brentwood, Los Angeles
Category: Arts & Entertainment, Museums
Hammer Museum
10899 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA, 90024
310-443-7000
The Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Culture Center opened in 1990. The museum houses impressionist and post-impressionist works from the personal art collection of founder Armand Hammer, who died three weeks after the museum opened…
Website: http://www.hammer.ucla.edu
Neighborhood: Los Angeles, Westwood
Category: Art, Arts & Entertainment, Museums
Hammer Museum Bookstore
10899 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, CA, 90024
310-443-7063
Your feet hurt and the kids are cranky, but stop by the Hammer Museum Bookstore anyway after an afternoon in the galleries…
Website: http://www.hammer.ucla.edu
Neighborhood: Los Angeles, Westwood
Category: Arts & Entertainment, Baby, Books and Magazines, Museums, Shopping
Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens
1151 Oxford Rd, Los Angeles, CA, 91108
626-405-2100
Ongoing activities at the Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens are a sort of finishing school for the cookie-crunching set.
Website: http://www.huntington.org
Category: Art, Arts & Entertainment, Museums
Kidspace
480 N. Arroyo Blvd, Los Angeles, CA, 91103
626-449-9144
The workshops at Kidspace are like chocolate chips in a brownie: indulgence inside an indulgence…
Website: http://www.kidspacemuseum.org
Category: Art, Arts & Entertainment, Museums
LACMA
5905 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, CA, 90036
323-857-6000
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) is the largest art museum in the West, housing 100,000 objects from ancient times to modern day…
Website: http://www.lacma.org
Neighborhood: Los Angeles, Mid-City
Category: Art, Arts & Entertainment, Museums
Luckman Fine Arts Complex
5151 State University Drive, Los Angeles, CA, 90032
323-343-6611
The Luckman Fine Arts Complex is defined by its four venues; Luckman Theatre, Street of the Arts, The Gallery, and Luckman Intimate Theatre.
Website: http://www.luckmanarts.org
Neighborhood: South San Gabriel
Category: Arts & Entertainment, Live Theatre, Museums, Performing Arts
Mini Cake Museum
573 S. Boyle Ave., Los Angeles, CA, 90033
(323)263-6195
You want a piece of this. The Mini Cake Museum has been curated over many years by Frances Kuyper, a woman who left behind a vaudeville career to spend the next five decades amassing more than 150 confections and more than 500 cake-decorating books
Neighborhood: Boyle Heights
Category: Arts & Entertainment, Museums
