Museums in Los Angeles
United States · 3 museums
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World Museum Guide covers 3 museums in Los Angeles, United States — led by Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Broad, The J. Paul Getty Museum — with verified admission prices, opening hours, and highlights for each. 2 offer free standard admission.
Top museums in Los Angeles
- 1. Los Angeles County Museum of Art · 2–3 hours
- 2. The Broad · 90 minutes
- 3. The J. Paul Getty Museum · 2–4 hours
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) is the largest art museum in the western United States, holding more than 150,000 works spanning art history from antiquity to the present. Its campus sprawls along Wilshire Boulevard's Miracle Mile — a cluster of buildings from different eras connected by outdoor sculpture gardens and Chris Burden's Urban Light installation at the main entrance.
⏱ 2–3 hours
The Broad
A contemporary art museum on Grand Avenue in downtown Los Angeles, housing the Eli and Edythe Broad collection — Yayoi Kusama's Infinity Mirrored Room, Basquiat, Koons, and post-war American art.
⏱ 90 minutes
The J. Paul Getty Museum
The J. Paul Getty Museum, commonly referred to as the Getty, is an art museum in California housed on two campuses: the Getty Center and Getty Villa. The primary location is the Getty Center in the Brentwood neighborhood of Los Angeles, which features pre-20th-century European paintings, drawings, illuminated manuscripts, sculpture, and decorative arts.
⏱ 2–4 hours