Free entry
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Getty Center
Art, pale stone and space to look out over the city. Free admission, with a timed reservation and a separate parking charge.
Los Angeles / From the hills to the coast
Wednesday 23 September
The local editLos Angeles
One destination. A whole afternoon.
A hillside museum. A table with a story. An afternoon outdoors. Pick your part of Los Angeles and give it some time.
Less searching. More going.
Your day, your way.
Choose a mood. We’ll connect the good places.
The after-dark edit
LA has another side after dark.
Hollywood house music, warehouse parties and live rooms. Choose your destination, then work out the ride home.
Explore after dark
01Los Angeles / Hollywood
Sound
A Hollywood dance floor built around house, techno and the artist on the bill, with the night concentrated in one room.
Find your nightEditorial artwork
02Los Angeles / Downtown Industrial District
1720
A warehouse music room south of downtown, moving between live bands, electronic bills and full-scale dance parties.
Find your nightEditorial artwork
03Los Angeles
The Echo
A small-room live-music finish on Sunset Boulevard, close enough to make Echo Park the evening’s centre of gravity.
Find your night
04Los Angeles / Hollywood
Bar Lis
A Riviera-inflected rooftop on Wilcox Avenue, for a Hollywood evening with music, open air and a livelier finish.
Find your night
Choose a dated event on the venue’s official programme. Admission and opening times vary.
Follow your curiosity
A few ways to do Los Angeles.
015 stops, at your pace
Downtown to Echo Park, with an encore
Two art stops, a market meal, the lake and a live-music finish. Los Angeles in chapters, with time to move between them.
Open the itinerary
023 stops, at your pace
Downtown art and something to eat
Make an art visit the anchor, then choose a market lunch or a French-dipped sandwich. A flexible Downtown edit.
Open the itinerary
033 stops, at your pace
Los Angeles: art, then lunch
A Downtown museum, a Westlake deli and a Westwood alternative. Choose a neighbourhood plan instead of chasing the whole city.
Open the itineraryOn our radar
Places to build a day around.
Koreatown
Guelaguetza
Downtown & Bunker Hill
Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind
Brentwood
Stendahl’s World: Marketing Ancient Mexico and Modern Art in Los Angeles
Places worth knowing
Make the trip part of the plan.
Free entry
PlaceActivities
The Broad
A contemporary-art anchor on Bunker Hill. The collection is free to visit; special exhibitions can have separate tickets.
Free entry
PlaceActivities
Hammer Museum
A free art visit in Westwood, with exhibitions that reward curiosity. Make one show the centre of an afternoon.
Free entry
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Griffith Observatory
A view across Los Angeles and a reason to look up. The observatory building and grounds are free; planetarium shows are separate.
Close the tabs. Open the weekend.
Choose a corner of LA. Stay a while.
An art-filled morning, a market lunch or a garden pause. Keep the distances in mind and let one good destination anchor the day.
Make a weekend of itEventExhibitions
Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind
An invitation to participate, imagine and listen at The Broad. Seven decades of Yoko Ono’s work, in a separately ticketed exhibition.
On the house
EventExhibitions
Stendahl’s World: Marketing Ancient Mexico and Modern Art in Los Angeles
An exhibition about the art trade and its consequences. Follow the movement of Mexican antiquities through a Los Angeles dealer’s archive.
The food edit
The city tells its stories at the table.
RestaurantMexican
Guelaguetza
Oaxacan cooking in Koreatown, with mole and tlayudas at the heart of the menu. A meal worth giving its own place in the day.
RestaurantAmerican
Philippe The Original
French-dipped sandwiches on North Alameda Street. A straightforward food stop near Chinatown and El Pueblo.
RestaurantAmerican
Langer’s Deli
A daytime deli stop at Seventh and Alvarado. Pastrami on rye is the reason to build a lunch around this Westlake address.
RestaurantAmerican
Musso & Frank Grill
An evening table on Hollywood Boulevard. A restaurant to plan around, with reservations and a different Sunday opening time.
Art & culture
See Los Angeles through its art.
EventExhibitions
Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind
An invitation to participate, imagine and listen at The Broad. Seven decades of Yoko Ono’s work, in a separately ticketed exhibition.
On the house
EventExhibitions
Stendahl’s World: Marketing Ancient Mexico and Modern Art in Los Angeles
An exhibition about the art trade and its consequences. Follow the movement of Mexican antiquities through a Los Angeles dealer’s archive.
On the house
EventExhibitions
Hammer Projects: Gê Viana
Sound, moving image and memory meet at the Hammer. Gê Viana’s first institutional presentation in the United States is free to visit.
On the house
EventExhibitions
Hammer Projects: Vibeke Mascini
Plants, cables and the movement of electrical energy meet in a new installation at the Hammer Museum.
Big on discovery. Easy on the wallet.
Free admission. A full afternoon.
Museum collections, gardens and city views. Check reservations and transport costs, then make time to enjoy the visit.
Discover it for yourselfA city of little worlds
A new perspective on every hillside.
Editor’s picks
LA plans with room to breathe.
GuideCulture
Los Angeles, at your own pace
A hilltop, a museum terrace or a focused art visit. Three different ways to give a Los Angeles day some breathing room.
GuideCulture
Downtown art and something to eat
Make an art visit the anchor, then choose a market lunch or a French-dipped sandwich. A flexible Downtown edit.
GuideCulture
Los Angeles: art, then lunch
A Downtown museum, a Westlake deli and a Westwood alternative. Choose a neighbourhood plan instead of chasing the whole city.
GuideCulture
Los Angeles: museums and a garden break
Free core science galleries, a garden in Exposition Park and a UCLA museum. Build around one part of the city instead of spending the day crossing it.
A closer look