Guides To Los Angeles Museums And Collections

How to plan a museum day, which passes save money, and the collection highlights worth your time, written for real visits rather than guesswork.

Planning Your Visit

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Best Museums

Thirty LA museums ranked honestly, with real admission prices, parking costs and closed days.

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Free Museums

The eleven museums that are genuinely free in LA, and what still costs money at each one.

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LA Museum Pass

No LA CityPASS exists. Go City is the real pass, and the math only works with a paid-heavy list.

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Rainy Day Museums

Where to stay dry in LA, sorted by cluster, price and how long the visit lasts.

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Three Day Itinerary

Three museum days clustered by geography, with prices and parking built in.

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Open On Monday

The Getty, The Broad and MOCA all close on Monday. These museums do not.

Museum By Museum

Museums

LA Art Museums

Free giants, paid classics and the parking math behind every art museum in Los Angeles.

Museums

Car Museums In LA

The Petersen and the studio lots that made cars movie stars.

Experiences

Science Museums

Three collections on one lawn, plus the observatory and the tar pits, with real prices and parking.

Museums

History Museums

Where Los Angeles keeps its own past, from a battleship to a tar pit, and which famous museums are closed.

Los Angeles And Beyond

City

Downtown Museums

The walkable, mostly free Bunker Hill museum cluster, with real prices and parking.

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Pasadena Museums

The Huntington and the Norton Simon: prices, free days and a one-day plan.

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