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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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Venice Heritage Museum
A neighbourhood museum offers a useful introduction to Venice beyond the beachfront.
Free entry
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Fowler Museum at UCLA
A free museum on the UCLA campus, with exhibitions that open conversations about art, objects and cultural life.
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Los Angeles Maritime Museum
A San Pedro waterfront museum connects a harbour visit with the city’s working sea routes.
Free entry
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ASU FIDM Museum
Fashion and costume collections bring the work behind clothing into a museum setting in downtown Los Angeles.
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Kidspace Children's Museum
A Pasadena museum designed around active play, with outdoor learning areas and hands-on experiences.
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Chinese American Museum
Chinese American history is explored near El Pueblo, where a museum visit connects naturally with the surrounding historic district.
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Museum of Jurassic Technology
An unusual museum in the Palms area, where the arrangement of displays invites curiosity about how knowledge is presented.
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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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Academy Museum of Motion Pictures
Film history becomes a museum experience on Wilshire, with costumes, production craft and the machinery of cinema in focus.
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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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Petersen Automotive Museum
Car design and motoring culture become the subject on Museum Row, inside a building that is hard to miss.
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USC Fisher Museum of Art
An art museum on the USC campus offers a focused cultural stop near Exposition Park.
Free entry
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Hammer Museum
A free art visit in Westwood, with exhibitions that reward curiosity. Make one show the centre of an afternoon.
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USC Pacific Asia Museum
Art from Asia and the Pacific is shown in a distinctive Pasadena building with a courtyard that is part of the visit's appeal.
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Autry Museum of the American West
The histories and cultures of the American West are explored beside Griffith Park.
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California African American Museum
Art and history in Exposition Park, centred on African American experiences with a particular connection to California.
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The Hollywood Museum
Film and television memorabilia fill the former Max Factor building in Hollywood.
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Holocaust Museum LA
A place for Holocaust education and remembrance beside Pan Pacific Park. Allow time for a thoughtful visit.
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Museum of Tolerance
Exhibitions examine prejudice, human rights and the Holocaust in a setting intended for reflection and learning.
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Norton Simon Museum
A concentrated art collection and sculpture garden make Pasadena worth giving an afternoon of its own.
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Hollywood Heritage Museum
Early filmmaking history is explored inside a historic barn near the Hollywood Bowl.
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International Printing Museum
Printing presses and demonstrations give a Carson visit a material, hands-on history.