Los Angeles County Museums (LACMA, for example)

 LA is a treasure trove of museums and a veritable find if you take advantage of the FREE DAYS each week offered by museums around the city. Here’s the run down.

Always Free:

California African American Museum; California Science Center; UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History; The Getty Center; The Getty Villa; Hollywood Bowl Museum; The Los Angeles Fire Department Museum; MOCA Pacific Design Center; Museum of Television and Radio; Muckenthaler Cultural Center; The Nethercutt Collection and Nethercutt Museum; Santa Monica Museum of Art.

Free Every Thursday:

Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Downtown, from 5 to 8 pm

MOCA Geffen Contemporary, Downtown, from 5 to 8 pm

Skirball Cultural Center, West LA, noon-9pm

UCLA Hammer Museum, West LA, all day

Japanese American National Museum, Little Tokyo, 5-8pm, and 3rd Thursday all day.

 

Free Every Friday:

Long Beach Museum of Art

Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach

 

Monthly Free Museum Days:

George C. Page Museum at the La Brea Tar Pits, Los Angeles – Free on first Tuesdays

Natural History Museum, Exposition Park, Downtown Los Angeles - Free on first Tuesdays

Craft and Folk Art Museum, Mid Wilshire, Museum Row, Los Angeles – Free on first Wednesdays

Huntington Library, Collections and Botanical Gardens, Pasadena - Free on first Thursdays (advance tickets required)

Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena – Free on first Fridays, 6 -9 pm

Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) - Mid-Wilshire, Museum Row, Los Angeles – Free on second Tuesdays

Autry National Center: Museum of the American West in Griffith Park, Los Angeles – Free on second Tuesdays

Los Angeles County Arboretum and Botanic Garden - Free on third Tuesdays

Japanese American National Museum, Little Tokyo, Los Angeles – Free on third Thursdays

Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena

- by Lark Ellen Gould, Los Angeles Reporter for HelloMetro  (Click to leave a message)

Lark Ellen Gould

Lark Ellen Gould has penned seven books on Las Vegas and Los Angeles as a veteran news and travel writer. Her work appears in the L.A. Times, Elite Traveler, Travel Agent Magazine and other national forums. She lived in Boston for many years, earning her masters degree and then traveling the globe for stories. Today she lives in LA and still travels the world on assignment while filling the pages of her travel site: www.wheredaily.com, along the way.