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Walter Maciel Gallery
A Culver City gallery offers a smaller-scale contemporary-art visit.
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Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
A contemporary-art programme makes this institution an address to follow for changing exhibitions.
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SPARC
A Venice community arts centre connects a gallery visit with public art and local cultural work.
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Philosophical Research Society
A Los Feliz cultural centre brings a library, talks and screenings into one distinctive setting.
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Amoeba Music: Hollywood
Record browsing makes a Hollywood afternoon more interesting than another souvenir stop.
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Brand Library & Art Center
A hillside Glendale building combines arts resources, exhibitions and a landscaped setting.
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LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes
A downtown cultural centre tells stories of Mexican and Mexican-American Los Angeles.
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Valley Relics Museum
Signs and local ephemera give the San Fernando Valley a vivid museum of everyday history.
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Martial Arts History Museum
Explore the cultural traditions behind martial arts, alongside costumes, weapons and their screen history, at the museum’s Glendale home.
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Museum of Flying
Aircraft displays make Santa Monica Airport a destination for an aviation-focused visit.
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Columbia Memorial Space Center
A Downey science centre connects hands-on discovery with the area’s aerospace history.
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International Printing Museum
Printing presses and demonstrations give a Carson visit a material, hands-on history.
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Pasadena Museum of History
Local history and a historic estate bring context to a Pasadena day.
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The Hollywood Museum
Film and television memorabilia fill the former Max Factor building in Hollywood.
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African American Firefighter Museum
A historic fire station preserves stories of Black firefighters in Los Angeles.
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Venice Heritage Museum
A neighbourhood museum offers a useful introduction to Venice beyond the beachfront.
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Los Angeles Maritime Museum
A San Pedro waterfront museum connects a harbour visit with the city’s working sea routes.
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Battleship USS Iowa Museum
A museum ship makes the Port of Los Angeles a substantial, history-led outing.
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Rancho Los Cerritos
A historic adobe and gardens give Long Beach a quieter cultural destination.
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Banning Museum
A Wilmington residence offers a closer look at the history behind the harbour landscape.
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Lummis Home
A stone-built home in the Arroyo Seco adds an architectural stop to a northeast Los Angeles day.
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Neutra VDL House
A Silver Lake house lets a booked architectural visit lead the neighbourhood itinerary.
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Mission San Gabriel
A mission complex brings regional history into a day east of central Los Angeles.
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Los Encinos State Historic Park
A small historic park preserves an earlier landscape within the San Fernando Valley.