Based on research by Eric Gerds in 1995, and recent research (summer 1999)
by Lisa Murway, Lynn Boston, Sherri Benoun.
- Adamson Home and Malibu Lagoon Museum
- 23200 Pacific Coast Hwy.
- Malibu
- 310-456-8432
- 1929 Spanish-Colonial Revival-style house. Chumash Indian artifacts
and history of Malibu from 1542 to the present.
Wed-Sat 11 am-3 pm. Group tours by reservation.
- Albinger Archaeological Museum
- 113 E. Main St.
- Ventura
- 805-648-5823?
- Chinatown exhibits and Chumash Indian artifacts.
Tue-Sun 10 am-4 pm
- Anaheim Museum
- 241 S Anaheim Blvd, Anaheim, CA 92805
714-778-3301
Hours: Wed thru Fri 10:00 - 4:00, Sat 12:00 - 4:00 Admission:
suggested donation $2.00
- Angels Attic [www]
- 516 Colorado Ave.
- Santa Monica
- 310-394-8331
- Antique dollhouses, miniatures, dolls, and toys.
Open Thu-Sun 12:30-4:30 pm. Admission: $6.50.
- Antique Gas and Steam Engine Museum [www] 2040 North Santa Fe, Vista CA 92084
- 2040 N Santa Fe Dr.
- Vista
- 760-941-1791, 800-587-2286
- Open daily, 10 am-4 pm.
- Autry Museum of Western Heritage [www]
- 4700 Western Heritage Way
- Los Angeles
- 323-667-2000
- Theater, education, and conservation center, research library, store, and
Golden Spur cafe.
Open Tue-Sun 10 am-5 pm.
Admission $7.50 adults, seniors 60+ and students $5, kids 2-12 $3.
- General Phineas Banning Residence Museum [www]
- 401 East M St.
- Wilmington
- 310-548-7777
- Hourly tours through Greek Revival-style house.
Weekends 12:30-3:30 pm, Tue-Thur 12:30-2:30 pm
- Bowers Museum of Cultural Art, and Kidseum
- 2002 N Main St
Santa Ana, CA 92706
714-567-3600
Hours: 10:00 - 4:00 Tue thru Sun Admission: adults $8.00 , seniors
$6.00, children 5 - 12 $4.00, children under 5 free.
- California African-American Museum [www]
- 600 State Dr., Exposition Park
- Los Angeles
- 213-744-7432
- History, art and culture of African-Americans.
Admission free. Open daily, 10 am-5 pm.
- California Science Center [www]
- 700 State Dr., Los Angeles CA 90037.
In Exposition Park, at the corner of Figueroa and Exposition Blvd.
Near I-110/Exposition Blvd.
- 323-724-3623 (323-SCIENCE)
Formerly known as the California Museum of Science and Industry.
Open 10am-5pm daily.
Hands-on and user-friendly exhibits and attractions, including Hall of
Health, Aerospace Museum, Mark Taper Hall of Economics and Finance, and
Science and Industry Hall.
Admission free.
(IMAX movies cost extra, call for prices.)
Parking $5, $10 for bus or oversize vehicles. Parking rates subject to
change on Coliseum event days.
- Chatsworth Museum
- 10385 Shadow Oak Dr.
- Chatsworth
- 818-882-5614
- Pioneer San Fernando Valley exhibits, Indian artifacts and agricultural
displays.
Open first Sun of the month 1-4 pm and by appointment.
- Childrens Museum
- 310 N. Main St.
- Los Angeles
- 213-687-8800 or 213-687-8801
- Hands-on exhibits.
Summer hours: Tu - Fr 11:30 - 5 pm, Sa-Su 10 - 5
pm.
- Los Angeles Craft and Folk Art Museum [www]
- 5800 Wilshire Blvd.
- Los Angeles
- 213-937-5544
- Open Wed-Sun, 11 am - 5 pm.
Admission $4. Seniors and students $2.50. Children under 12 free.
- L.A. County Fire Museum
- 1320 N Eastern Ave.
- Los Angeles
- 213-780-8270
- Antique Fire Department apparatus and memorabilia.
Open third Sunday of month, noon-4 pm
- Discovery Museum of Orange
- 3101 W Harvard St, Santa Ana, CA 92704
714-540-0404
(This is a natural and cultural history museum.)
Hours: Wed thru Fri 1:00 - 5:00, Sat & Sun 11:00 - 3:00 Admission:
Adults $4.00, children 3 - 12 $3.00
- Discovery Science
Center
- 2500 N Main St,
Santa Ana, CA 92705
714-542-2823
Hours: 10:00 - 5:00 Sun thru Sat Admission: adults $8.00 , seniors
$6.00, children 3 - 17 $6.00, children under 3 free.
- Drum Barracks Civil War Museum [www]
- 1052 Banning Blvd.
- Wilmington
- 310-548-7509
- Historic landmark from the Civil War era. Restored Colonial building.
Tue-Fri 9 am-1 pm, Weekends 12:30-3:00 pm
- Fort MacArthur Museum [www]
- Angels Gate Cultural Center
- 3601 S. Gaffey St.
- San Pedro
- 310-548-2631
- Photos, drawings, exhibits, and memorabilia of Ft. MacArthur and Los
Angeles Harbor defenses from the 1920's to World War II. Living history
program, first weekend of the month.
Open noon-5 pm Tuesdays, Thursdays, weekends and holidays.
- Fullerton Museum Center
- 301 N Pomona Ave,
Fullerton, CA 92832
714-738-6545
Hours: 12:00 - 8:00 Thursday, 12:00 - 4:00 Wed, Fri thru Sun
Admission: adults $3.00, seniors (Wed only) $2.00, students 13 - 17
with ID $2.00, children 6 - 12 $1.00, children 5 and under free.
- Gamble House [www]
- 4 Westmorland Place
- Pasadena, CA 91103-3593
- 626-793-3334
- Greene and Greene mansion built in Pasadena for the Gamble Family in 1908.
This
National Historic Landmark house is built with all-peg construction, and
features exotic woodwork and original furniture. Open for public tours
Thursday through Sunday, 12:00 to 3:00 pm. Admission $4.00, $3.00
Seniors, $2.00 Students with ID. 12 and under Free.
- George C.
Page Museum
- Southeast corner of Hancock Park,
- 5801 Wilshire Bl.
- Los Angeles
- 323-934-7243
- "La Brea Discoveries" displays fossils uncovered at
La Brea Tar Pits [www].
Open Mon-Fri 9:30-5, Sat-Sun 10 am-5 pm.
$6 adults, $3.50 seniors and students with ID,
$2 kids 6-12, under 5 free.
Parking $5 with validation in lot behind museum.
As of June 1999, Hancock Park is undergoing renovation.
- J. Paul Getty Museum
- 17985 Pacific Coast Hwy.
- Malibu
- 310-458-2003?
- Art lovers, this place is for you!!! A stunningly beautiful
recreation of
a Roman villa houses Greek and Roman antiquities, pre-20th century
European paintings and sculpture, old master drawings, and more.
Open Tue-Sun, 10 am-5 pm. Free. Advanced parking reservations
NECESSARY!!
- Getty Center for History of Art
- 401 Wilshire Blvd.
- Santa Monica
- 310-395-0388?
- Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities.
Open Mon-Fri, 8:30 am-5:30 pm, Sat, 10 am-5 pm. Free admission.
- Gordon R. Howard Museum Complex
- 1015 W. Olive Ave and 115 N. Lomita St.
- Burbank
- 818-841-6333
- History of Lockheed exhibit, Warner Bros' original "The Jazz Singer,"
Disney and NBC studios exhibits, camera college, and antique cars.
Sun 1-4 pm.
- Grier Musser Museum [www]
- 403 S. Bonnie Brae Ave.
- Los Angeles
- 213-413-1814?
- Turn-of-the-century museum with rotating exhibits for the holidays.
Wed-Sat
11 am-4 pm.
- Griffith Observatory [www]
- Hancock Memorial Museum [www]
- USC, Hancock Hall, Trousdale Way at Child's Way
- Los Angeles
- 213-740-5144
- Designed after the Villa de Medici and built in 1907. Four room
and original furnishings, including items from the Mexico City
palace of Maxmilian and Carlotta.
Weekdays 10 am-4 pm, by appointment
only.
- Heritage Square Museum Village [www]
- 3800 Home St.
- Highland Park
- 626-449-0193
- Off the Pasadena Freeway at Ave. 43.
Eight restored Los Angeles Victorians on 10 acres of parkland.
Admission $5; ages 13-17 and seniors $3; ages 7-12 $$1.
Fri-Sun 12 pm - 4 pm
- Hollywood Movie Costume Museum
- 6630 Hollywood Bl.
- Hollywood
- 213-962-6992?
- Original costumes worn in films dating back to the silent movies.
Weekdays
10 am-4 pm.
- Hollywood Studio Museum
- 2100 N Highland Ave.
- Los Angeles
- 213-874-2276?
- DeMille-Lasky barn where first feature-length movie, "The Squaw Man," was
shot in 1913.
Weekends 10 am-4 pm.
- Huntington Library, Art Collections, And Botanical Gardens [www]
- 1151 Oxford Road
- San Marino
- 626-405-2141
- The Botanical Gardens include Japanese gardens with a tea house, a
Shakespeare garden, jungle and rose gardens, and a unique desert
representation. The Art Collection includes works of British painters,
French decorative arts, rare books and manuscripts, and furniture and
decorative arts by Charles and Henry Green.
Open Tue-Fri, 1-4:30 pm, Sat-Sun, 10:30 am-4:30 pm. Admission is free,
with donation suggested.
- International Printing Museum
-
315 E. Torrance Blvd.
Carson, CA 90745
714-529-1832
Printing presses from Chinese block printing through Gutenburg to
today.
Hours: Saturday 10:00 am - 4:00 pm Weekdays by appointment only.
Admission: $5.00
- Japanese American National Museum [www]
- 369 First St.
- Los Angeles
- 213-625-0414, 800-461-5264
- Located in the first Japanese Buddhist temple built in Los Angeles. With
displays on America's Concentration camps: Remembering the Japanese
American Experience. Video and newsreel footage, photographs and artifacts
commemorating the Japanese Americans who were held in concentration camps
during WWII.
Open Tue-Thu, Sat-Sun, 10 am-5 pm. Fri, 11 am-8 pm.
- Kenneth G. Fiske Musical Instrument Museum
- 450 N College Way
- Claremont
- 909-621-8307?
- More than 750 European and ethnic brass, string, woodwind, percussion,
mechanical, and folk instruments.
By appointment only.
- Kidspace Museum
- 390 S. El Molino Ave.
- Pasadena
- 818-449-9144?
- Participatory exhibits.
Hours Wed, 2 - 5 pm, Sa-Su 12;30 - 5 pm.
admission
$$ 2.50- 5. Free Family Night series last Wed of each month, 5 - 8 pm.
- Korean Cultural Center
- 5505 Wilshire Blvd.
- Los Angeles
- 213-936-7141?
- Traditional and contemporary Korean art.
Open Mon-Fri, 10 am - 5 pm; Sat, 10 am - 1 pm. Admission is free.
- La Habra Children's Museum
- 301 S Euclid St, La Habra, CA 90631(562)
905-9793
Hours: Mon thru Sat 10:00 - 5:00. Sun 1:00 - 5:00 Admission: $4.00
- Lomita Railroad Museum
- 250th St. and Woodward Ave.
- Lomita
- 310-326-6255?
- Vintage trains and architecture.
Wed-Sun 10 am-5 pm.
- Los Angeles County Museum of Art [www]
- 5905 Wilshire Blvd.
- Los Angeles
- 213-857-6000?
- Open Wed-Thu, 10 am-5 pm, Fri, 10 am-9 pm, Sat-Sun, 11 am-6
pm.
Admission $6, students and seniors over 62 $4, Children 6-17 $1, children
under 5 free.
- Los Angeles Maritime Museum
- Berth 84. Next to Ports O'Call, foot of 6th St.
San Pedro 90731
- 310-548-7168? 310-548-7618?
- Vessels, exhibits, models, paintings, and memorabilia of maritime life
from
other eras to the present.
Museum has a 54 ft. Angleman Yawl and a 27 ft. Monterey Fishing Boat
plus a library of ship registers, logs, and other maritime records.
Tours, lectures, special events (e.g., Maritime Festival), and
participatory exhibits.
Admission free.
Tue-Sun 10 am-5 pm.
- Long Beach Childrens Museum
- 445 Long Beach Bl.
- Long Beach
- 310-495-1653?
- Thu-Sat 11 - 4 pm; Sun 12 - 4 pm. $3.95
- Lummis House - El Alisal
- 200 E. Avenue 43
- Highland Park
- 213-222-0546?
- Built in 1898. Home of Charles Fletcher Lummis, founder of the Southwest
Museum and ethnographer. Features drought-resistant, low-maintenance
garden.
Admission free. Fri-Sun 12 noon to 4 pm.
- March Field Museum
- Interstate 215
- Moreno Valley
- 909-655-3725?
- Aircraft, flying memorabilia and vintage planes.
Mon-Fri 10 am-4 pm, weekends noon-4 pm.
- Marconi Automotive Museum
- 1302 Industrial Dr, Tustin, CA 92780
714-258-3001
Hours: 8:00 - 5:00 Mon thru Fri Admission $5.00
- Mexican American Museum of Art
- 1850 E 17th St # 112,
Santa Ana, CA
92705
714-541-3070
- Military
Vehicle Museum [www]
- 1918 N. Rosemead Blvd.
- South El Monte CA,
- 626-442-1776, fax:626-443-1776
- American and foreign Jeeps, trucks, tanks, and cannons.
Tue-Fri, 8-4, Sat-Sun 12pm-4:30 pm.
Adults $4, Seniors and veterans $3, juniors $2, kids $.50.
- Mission
San Juan Capistrano [www]
- San Juan Capistrano. Same location as Amtrak station.
- Movieland Wax Museum, Buena Park [www]
- Mott's Miniatures Museum [www]
- Museum of Contemporary Art [www]
- Museum of Flying [www]
- 2772 Donald Douglas Loop North
- Santa Monica
- 310-392-8822?
- Helicopter tours of Los Angeles area, Sundays, flight-ready World War II
aircraft and historical exhibits including 1924 Douglas World Cruiser New
Orleans.
Open Wed-Sun 10 am-5 pm. $7, seniors $5.
- Carole & Barry Kaye Museum Of Miniatures [www]
- 5900 Wilshire Blvd.
- Los Angeles
- 323-937-6464, 323-937-7766
- Explore exquisitely furnished ancient palaces, a haunted town, western
town and Victorian village. Visit with Louis XIV, Marie Antoinette and
Madame Pompadour.
Open Tues-Sat., 10 am - 5 pm. Sun., 11 am - 5 pm. Admission $7.50, seniors
$6.50, students $5, Children 3-12 years $3.
- Museum of Neon Art
- 510 W. Olympic at Hope
Los Angeles 90015
(213?)-489-9918?
Historic neon signs and devices and contemporary fine art in
electric media.
Hours: 11-5 Tue-Sat?; adult, $2.50?; children under 16 and members,
no charge.
- Museum of Television and Radio [www]
- Museum of Tolerance [www]
- 9786 W. Pico Blvd.
- Los Angeles 90035
- 310-553-8403
- Exhibits include the Holocaust, L.A.Riots, and Civil Rights Sections.
Open Mon-Thu, 10 am-5 pm, Fri, 10 am-3 pm, Sun, 11 am-5 pm.
- Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County [www]
- 900 Exposition bl.
- Los Angeles
- 213-744-3466?
- Ralph M. Parson Discovery Center has hands-on exhibits of natural science
and historic objects.
Hours 10 - 5 pm, Discovery Center 11-3 pm.
Admission
$1 -$5. Museum Free first Tuesday of each month.
- Norton Simon Museum of Art
- Orange Grove and Colorado Blvd.
- Pasadena
- 818-449-6840?
- Renaissance to mid-20th century art. The wonderful permanent collection
includes paintings by Matisse, Rembrandt, Renoir, van Gogh, Gauguin,
Picasso and Raphael; sculpture by Rodin, and bronzes by Degas.
Open Thu-Sun, 12 pm-6 pm. Admission $4, students and seniors $2, children
under 12 free.
- Olivas Adobe
- 4200 Olivas Park Dr.
- Ventura
- 805-644-4346?
- Two-story Monterey-style adobe, rancho era exhibits, rose garden.
6 1/2 acres.
Weekdays 10 am-4 pm.
- Ontario Museum of History and Art
- 225 S. Euclid Ave.
- Ontario
- 909-983-3198?
- Exhibits on agriculture, manufacturing, and aviation.
Wed-Sun noon-4
pm.
- Orange County Natural History Museum
- 28373 Alicia Parkway,
Laguna
Niguel, CA 92677
949-831-3287
Hours: 11 - 5 Wed through Sun Admission: adults $1.00, children $0.50.
-
Orange Empire Railway Museum [www]
- 2201 S. A St.
- Perris
- 909-657-2605?
- Restored trolleys and trains operate. You can ride red cars
here at the Orange Empire Railway Museum.
Weekends 11 am-5 pm.
- Pacific Asia Museum
- 46 N. Los Robles Ave.
- Pasadena
- 818-449-2742?
- Open Wed-Sun, 10 am-5 pm. Admission $4, students and seniors $2. Children
under 12 free. Free admission the third Sat of the month.
- Pasadena Historical Society
- 470 W Walnut St.
- Pasadena
- 818-577-1660?
- Fenyes Mansion, Pasadena History Museum, and Finnish Folk Art Museum.
Thu-Sun, 1-4 pm.
- Petersen Automobile Museum
- 6060 Wilshire Bl.
- Los Angeles
- 213-930-2277?
- Museum presents vintage cars and exhibvits exploring the impact of the
auromobile on american life and culture. This is where the cars from the
Natural History Museum went.
Sat-Thu 10 - 6 pm; Fri 10 - 9 pm.
Admission $7, students and seniors $5. Parking $4
- Red Car Museum
- Heritage Park, Main and Electric Sts.
- Seal Beach
- Renovated Pacific Electric Red Car, housed in a maintenance yard of the
old
P.E. Home of the Seal Beach Historical and Cultural Society.
Admission free.
2nd and 4th Sat of the month, 1 pm - 4 pm.
- Richard Nixon Library and Birthplace
- 18001 Yorba Linda Bl.
- Yorba Linda
- 714-993-3393?
Nine-acre grounds include main gallery and original birthplace home.
Sun 11 am-5 pm, Mon-Sat 10 am-5 pm.
- Ripley's Believe It Or Not, Buena Park [www]
- Ripley's Believe It Or Not, Hollywood [www]
- Riverside Municipal Museum
- 3720 Orange St.
- Riverside
- 909-782-5273?
- Natural and local history, botany gallery, dioramas of wildlife, Indian
artifacts, and early tools.
Tue-Fri 9 am-5 pm, weekends 1-5 pm.
- San Bernardino County Museum
- 2024 Orange Tree Ln.
- Redlands
- 909-798-8570?
- Tue-Sat 9 am-5 pm, Sun 11am-5 pm.
- San Buenaventura Mission [www] 221 E. Main St., Ventura CA 93001-2622, 805-643-4318, fax:805-643-7831
- San Diego Museum of Man [www]
- 1350 El Prado, Balboa Park
- San Diego
- 619-239-2001?
- Admission.
Daily 10 am-4:30 pm.
- San Diego Natural History Museum [www]
- Balboa Park
- San Diego
- 619-232-3821?
- Bruder Family Mineral Gallery and weekend nature walks with canyoneers.
Reuben H. Fleet Space Theater and Science Center. For theater showtimes
call 619-238-1168?.
Space Theater and Science Center open Sun 9 am-9:30 pm,
Mon-Sat 9:30 am-10:30 pm.
- Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History [www]
- 2559 Puesta del Sol Rd.
- Santa Barbara
- 805-682-4711?
- New Condor exhibit and assembled skeleton of 72-foot blue whale.
Mon-Sat 9 am-5 pm; Sun 10 am-5 pm. Free docent tour Sun 2 pm.
- Santa Monica Heritage Museum
- 2612 Main St.
- Santa Monica 90405
- 310-392-8537?
- Thur-Sat 11 am-4 pm Sun noon-4 pm.
- Southwest Museum [www]
- 234 Museum Dr.
- Highland Park, Los Angeles 90065
- 323-221-2164
- World-famous collection of artifacts, crafts, and arts representing
native
cultures from Alaska to South America. Oldest museum in Los Angeles,
founded in 1907.
Admission $5; students and seniors $3; ages 7-18
$2.
Open Tue-Sun 10-5.
- S.S. Lane Victory Memorial Museum [www]
- Berth 94
- San Pedro
- 310-519-9545?
- World War II cargo ship under restoration.
Daily 10 am-4 pm.
- Stagecoach Inn Museum
- 51 S. Ventu Park Rd.
- Newbury Park
- 805-498-9441
- Reconstructed 19th Century Monterey Style hotel.
Docent-led
museum tours Wed-Sun 1-4 pm; complex tours Sun 1-4 pm.
-
Travel Town Museum [www]
- Griffith Park
- Ventura and Golden State freeways
- Los Angeles
- 213-662-5874?
- Outdoor transportation museum with focus on Western U.S. rail history.
"Firefighting in Los Angeles: 1869-1940."
Admission free.
Mon-Fri 10 am-4 pm; weekends and holidays 10 am-5 pm.
- U.C.L.A./Armand Hammer Museum
- 10899 Wilshire Blvd.
- Westwood
- 310-443-7000?
- From the outside it looks like an office building, but inside contains a
permanent collection includes works by Rembrandt, Rubens, van Gogh,
Cassatt, Monet and da Vinci. Also the largest collection in the U.S. of
Honore Daumier.
Open Tue-Sat, 11 am-7 pm, Sun, 11 am-6 pm. Admission
$4.50, students and seniors $3. Children under 17 free.
- Western Hotel Museum
- 557 W Lancaster Bl.
- Lancaster
- 805-723-6250
- Tours of Lancaster's oldest surviving building, constructed circa
1888.
Fri 1:30 pm.
- Whittier Museum [www]
- 6755 Newlin Ave.
- Whittier
- 562-945-3871
- "Main Street, 1900"
Weekends 1-4 pm.
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