Santa Monica History Museum
2022-12-04 15:00 - 20:00, 2022-12-15 15:00 - 20:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Santa Monica History Museum, 1350 7th Street, Santa Monica, CA, 90401, United States
OPEN THURSDAY – SUNDAY- Santa Monica
The Santa Monica History Museum was founded under the “Historical Activities Committee” of Santa Monica’s Centennial Celebration in 1975 and by a public poll, with their goal to collect, preserve, and be the caretaker of history. Its name at that time was the Santa Monica Historical Society and it was designated as the official collector and preserver of the history, art, and culture of the Santa Monica Bay Area. Former Mayor Clo Hoover, the first woman mayor of Santa Monica, was elected the first president.

The museum, one of the largest in the country for a city the size of Santa Monica, has grown far beyond expectations with an expansive collection of artifacts, photographs, and memorabilia. Thousands of hours have been dedicated to public education and museum services.

With the help of Louise and Bob Gabriel who had been active in the community for years and had a strong love for Santa Monica and its history took on the responsibility to make the museum a reality. Within three years, with determination, perseverance, and countless hours of work, Bob headed the fundraising committee and raised the necessary funds. Louise was able to get all the furnishings for the museum donated by companies that were going out of business. Bob found a temporary rent‐free location on Colorado Avenue.

Our Mission
The Santa Monica History Museum’s mission is to collect, preserve and share the history and culture of Santa Monica for generations to come.

Our Vision
The Santa Monica History Museum is the steward of the rich history of the Santa Monica Bay area. We are committed to enriching our community by providing public access to our extensive collection with interpretive exhibitions, public programs, community partnerships, and through archival and research services.

CURRENT EXHIBITION FROM APRIL 1 – DECEMBER 23, 2022
Broadway to Freeway:
Life and Times of a Vibrant Community

In the mid-20th century, the Broadway neighborhood was a thriving, tight-knit community in Santa Monica. Built by African American, Mexican American, and immigrant communities, the Broadway neighborhood was a haven for those who were excluded from other parts of the city by racist and anti-immigrant policies and practices.
This exhibition tells the story of how residents built Broadway into a flourishing community of color – and how the Interstate 10 freeway destroyed it in the 1960s. The vibrant lives of pioneering individuals – like the first African American teacher and social worker hired in Santa Monica – are knitted into the neighborhood they built together. The community populated Broadway with welcoming schools, homes, and businesses – from beauty parlors and jazz clubs, to the malt shop, tortilleria, and Jewish deli.

Featuring period photographs, advertisements, oral histories, and songs, the exhibition draws on the wealth of archival material collected by the Quinn Research Center, which is dedicated to preserving the history of African American life in Santa Monica.
Today, little evidence remains of the community on the blocks between 13th Street and 20th Street, once the heart of the Broadway neighborhood. Though physically erased, Broadway lives on in the stories that are preserved and shared to illuminate past inequities and spotlight the inspirational individuals who created a center of social and civic life on their own terms.

Admissions

General – $5.00
Seniors & Students – $5.00
Children under 12 – Free
Museum members – Free
Veterans & Active-duty military – Free

Hours
Monday – Wednesday: Closed
Thursday: 3:00pm – 8:00pm
Friday – Sunday: 11:00am – 5:00pm
Museum Holiday Hours
We are closed in observance of the following holidays: New Year’s Day, President’s Day, Easter, Memorial Day, July 4th, Labor Day, Thanksgiving, and the day after, Christmas

For additional information, visit the website @
santamonicahistory.org

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The Museum of Contemporary Art
2022-12-05 | MOCA- Museum Of Contemporary Art, 250 S Grand Ave, Los Angeles, CA, 90012, United States
Barbara Kruger, Untitled (Questions)- DTLA

MOCA has reinstalled the monumental wall work by Los Angeles–based artist Barbara Kruger (b. New York 1945), Untitled (Questions) (1990/2018). The emblematic red, white, and blue artwork was originally commissioned by MOCA in 1989 for the exhibition A Forest of Signs: Art in the Crisis of Representation, and was last installed in 1990 on the south wall of MOCA’s building (now The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA). The work holds an iconic place in the collective memory of Los Angeles’s art community and is considered one of the museum’s curatorial highlights over its forty-year history.

This iteration is installed on the north facade of The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, facing Temple Street and measuring 30 by 191 feet. Asking nine questions including “Who is beyond the law?,” “Who is bought and sold?,” and “Who is free to choose?,” the work points to issues of patriotism, civic engagement, and power relations. In connection with the work, MOCA led a series of voter registration efforts during the 2018 midterms, and will continue these efforts in advance of the 2020 general election.

This project was initiated by MOCA Director Klaus Biesenbach and is organized by MOCA Senior Curator Bennett Simpson.
This installation of Barbara Kruger’s Untitled (Questions) is generously supported by an anonymous donor.

ONE MUSEUM. TWO LOCATIONS- Free Every Thursday

Welcome to The Museum of Contemporary Art. With two distinct venues—MOCA Grand Avenue and The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA—and Michael Heizer’s seminal artwork Double Negative (1969-70) in the Nevada desert, we engage audiences through an ambitious program of exhibitions, educational programs, and publishing.

Welcome to The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

We are contemporary.
We question and adapt to the changing definitions of art.

We are a museum.
We present, collect, and interpret the art of our time.

We care
for the experience of art, the inevitability of change, the multiplicity of perspectives, the urgency of contemporary expression.

With 2 distinct venues in Los Angeles

MOCA Grand Avenue
250 South Grand Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90012
Architect Arata Isozaki designed MOCA Grand Avenue in 1986 with classical architecture and Los Angeles popular culture in mind. Today this location hosts the museum’s main galleries, Lemonade café, the flagship location of the MOCA Store, and staff offices.
more info at: Grand Ave

250 S Grand Ave
Los Angeles, CA 90012

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The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA
152 North Central Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90012
A former police car warehouse in L.A.’s Little Tokyo Historic District, renovated by the noted California architect Frank Gehry, The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA (formerly The Temporary Contemporary) opened in 1983. This location offers 40,000 square feet of exhibition space.
more info at: Geffen

and Michael Heizer’s seminal artwork Double Negative (1969-70) in the Nevada desert,
Overton Airport- Mormon Mesa, Overton, Nevada (80 miles from Las Vegas)
1110 Airport Road
Overton, NV 89040
Double Negative was constructed by Michael Heizer in the Nevada desert in 1969 and remains one of the few still extant examples of what are commonly referred to as earthworks, land art, or environmental sculpture. The land art movement first appeared in the late 1960s and served to challenge the location, material, size, and temporal existence of a work of art. Double Negative consists of two long straight trenches, 30 feet wide and 50 feet deep, cut into the “tabletop” of Mormon Mesa, displacing 240,000 tons of desert sandstone. The cuts face each other across an indentation in the plateaus’ scalloped perimeter, forming a continuous image, a thick linear volume that bridges and combines the “negative” space between them.
more info at: Double Negative

Admission to Double Negative by artist Michael Heizer is always free.

Hours
Monday: 11:00 a.m.-6:00p.m.
Tuesday: Closed
Wednesday: 11:00 a.m.-6:00p.m.
Thursday: 11:00 a.m.-8:00p.m.
Friday: 11:00 a.m.-6:00p.m.
Saturday – Sunday: 11:00 a.m.-5:00p.m.

General Admission: Free
Special exhibitions: $18
Members: Free
Children under 12: Free
Seniors and students: $10
Special exhibitions are free every Thursday, 5-8pm.

For additional information, visit the website @
www.moca.org

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DISCOVER AND GO FREE MUSEUM TICKETS
2022-12-05 | LA County Library, CA, United States
EXPLORE SOCAL MUSEUMS FOR FREE – LA County Library
Enjoy FREE MUSEUM TICKETS for you and your family! Discover the art, history, and culture of Los Angeles County on family day as you explore exhibits in partnered museums of LA County Library! Visit the website to claim passes to any of these museums: Catalina Island Museum, La Brea Tar Pits and Museum, and Natural History Museum of Los Angeles.
With your LA County Library card, you can reserve family passes to local museums and cultural institutions for free through Discover & Go.
How to Reserve a Pass:

Visit the Discover & Go portal and log in using your library card number and PIN.
Browse by museum or date.
Make a reservation by selecting a date and venue.
Shortly before your visit, print out your pass.
Note: You cannot cancel your passes once they have been printed.
Enjoy your visit!

Program Requirements:
Only adults ages 18 and over with a full-access library card in good standing can reserve Discover & Go passes – this means your account is not barred or blocked. Digital library cards may not be used to reserve passes. Contact your local library to check on your account status.
Notes About Pass Reservations:

You can make reservations up to 3 months in advance. New tickets are released on the first of each month.
All free tickets are first-come, first-served until all tickets are exhausted for the month.
You can have up to 2 active reservations at a time.
Please read all the details on each venue before making a reservation, as details vary for each museum.
For some museums, passes are restricted to 1-per-calendar-year per customer. Double-check the dates for these, and don’t print them until you’re sure you can attend!
Reservations can be canceled only if the pass has not been printed. Log into Discover & Go to cancel your reservation online.
The pass is only valid for the name and date on the pass. A valid photo ID is required for admission.

PARTICIPATING PARTNERS
CATALINA ISLAND MUSEUM

LA BREA TAR PITS & MUSEUM

NATIONAL HISTORY MUSEUM OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY

Don’t Have A Library Card? Get One NOW!

Library cards are available for free to permanent and temporary residents of California. With an LA County Library card, you can:

check out books, magazines, and DVDs
place holds and accesses your account online
access library databases from home
download audiobooks, books, and music
use the Library’s public computers and internet
connect to Wi-Fi at all LA County Library locations

Library Cards for Children and Teens
There is no minimum age requirement to apply for a library card. Children under 18 must have a parent or guardian sign their library card application. Parents/guardians can restrict their child from checking out DVDs. For a child to access the Internet, parents/guardians must be present and fill out an Internet Access Permission form. All fees related to lost or damaged items or lost library cards are the responsibility of the parent/guardian.
How to Get a PIN
A PIN allows you to place holds and access your account online, use the Library’s public computers, and access Wi-Fi. You are given a PIN when you first apply for a library card. If you have a library card but do not have a PIN or have forgotten it, you can request a PIN online or by calling any LA County Library location.
How to Access Your Account

You can access your library account by logging into the online catalog and clicking “My Account.” From here, you can:

Renew items, check due dates, and view fees
Check the status of holds, cancel holds, change pickup location
Place a vacation hold by entering the dates you will be gone and we will delay your hold until you return
Update your address and phone number
Change your PIN Update your email

For additional information, visit the website @
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FULL MUSEUM VIRTUAL TOUR
2022-12-06 | https://www.petersen.org/watch-page
STREAM NOW- TWO HOUR VIRTUAL TOUR- Petersen Auto Museum

Petersen Auto Museum welcomes you to join us as we do our first ever, 2+hour Full Museum & Vault Virtual Guided Tour. This tour will walk through almost all of the vehicles in the museum and cover the 5 newest exhibitions including Supercars, Extreme Conditions, Reclaimed Rust (the James Hetfield Collection), and Redefining Performance (Porsche).

Petersen Auto Museum Virtual Tour includes over 200 makes and models spanning over 120 years
of automotive history. You will also see the Vault presented by @Hagerty​, which includes celebrity cars like the @TheSmokingTire​‘s
Matt Farah’s Lamborghini, @Tavarish​‘s Lamborghini,
and Bruce Canepa’s #Porsche​ 959.

VAULT ABSTRACT
After an extensive renovation, the Vault presented by Hagerty® has more than doubled in size and now features over 250 vehicles from around the world. Discover some of the most iconic and rare cars, motorcycles, and trucks spanning over 120 years of automotive history. Visitors get to explore the history of the automobile, from early legends to stunning modern supercars. Visitors will see turn-of-the-twentieth-century cars, head-of-state vehicles, American classics, the personal rides of Hollywood legends, award-winning hot rods, cars that pushed the boundaries of innovation, and many other surprises.

Timestamps below for each floor.
​ Skip to 2nd Floor: 33:45​ (Motorsports, Motorcycles, James Hetfield’s Collection, Offroad & Porsche)
Skip to 1st Floor: 1:13:06​ (Science Fiction Cars)
Skip to Vault: 1:23:53​ (200+ car collection underground)

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BLACK HISTORY EVERY MONTH
2022-12-06 10:00 - 17:00 | California African American Museum, 600 State Drive, Los Angeles, CA, 90037, United States
FREE! TUES – SUNDAY- Exposition Park
The California African American Museum (CAAM) focuses on enrichment and education on the cultural heritage and history of African Americans with a focus on California and western United States.
Admission is free to all visitors. The California African American Museum’s mission is to research, collect, preserve, and interpret for public enrichment the history, art, and culture of African Americans with an emphasis on California and the western United States.

CAAM’s permanent collection consists of over 4,000 objects ranging from the 1800s to the present. It encompasses paintings, photographs, film, sculpture, historical documents, and artifacts, and it spans nineteenth-century landscape paintings to modern artworks to contemporary mixed-media reflections on cultural and political events.

The Museum’s first acquisitions included a bronze bust of civil rights activist Dr. Mary Mcleod Bethune by artist Richmond Barthé and a sculpture by artist Maren Hassinger, then at the start of her career. These laid the perfect groundwork for CAAM’s mandate to assemble a comprehensive, thoughtful, and wide-reaching collection.

CAAM’s deepest holdings include art made or connected to African Americans in California and the western United States. However, the Museum also has significant works of contemporary art from the African diaspora (including Haiti, Brazil, and Jamaica), as well as traditional African art from Western, Central, and Sub-Saharan Africa. CAAM aims to represent the diverse contributions of African Americans in the United States, but also to interpret how the past has affected identity in the present.

Today, CAAM oversees, exhibits, and conserves a rapidly growing collection. Each quarter, curators review the current holdings and decide as a committee on future acquisitions. We view our collection as a living body — constantly evolving, growing, and reflecting the world in which we live.

Some examples of CAAM’s collection include the Walter Burrell Collection of audio recordings of Burrell’s interviews with African American celebrities, broadcast by a local radio station in the early 1970s; the oral histories of Celes King, who was both a local civil rights activist as well as a former Tuskegee airman; and selections from the collection of visual artist John Outterbridge.

Hours
Tuesdays – Saturdays: 10:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
Sundays: 11:00 a.m.-5:00p.m.
Mondays: Closed

For additional information, visit the website @
caamuseum.org

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The Broad Museum- DTLA
2022-12-06 11:00 - 17:00 | The Broad, 221 South Grand Ave, Los Angeles, CA, 90012, United States
FREE TUE – SUN- Bunker Hill, DTLA
The Broad makes its collection of contemporary art from the 1950s to the present accessible to the widest possible audience by presenting exhibitions and operating a lending program to art museums and galleries worldwide.
By actively building a dynamic collection that features in-depth representations of influential contemporary artists and by advancing education and engagement through exhibitions and diverse public programming, the museum enriches, provokes, inspires, and fosters appreciation of art of our time.

The Broad was founded by philanthropists Eli and Edythe Broad on Grand Avenue in downtown Los Angeles. Designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro in collaboration with Gensler, the museum offers free general admission and presents an active program of rotating temporary exhibitions and innovative audience engagement. The Broad is home to 2,000 works of art in the Broad collection, which is one of the world’s leading collections of postwar and contemporary art.

The Broad from Home
The Broad is committed to inspiring and fostering an appreciation of contemporary art through our digital initiatives. Experience #TheBroadFromHome to find inspiration through music, poetry, performance, workshops, and conversations centered around the Broad collection.
Overview
Performances
Talks & Conversations
Artist Spotlight
Family Art Workshops
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The Broad Collection
Eli and Edythe Broad have been building their collection of postwar and contemporary art over the last 50 years. With a belief that the greatest art collections are built when the art is being made, the Broads took to collecting art of their own time.
The Broad is home to 2,000 works in the Broad collection by more than 200 artists, and is one of the world’s leading collections of postwar and contemporary art. The collection features in-depth holdings of influential contemporary artists such as Jean-Michel Basquiat, Mark Bradford, Jasper Johns, Jeff Koons, Barbara Kruger, Yayoi Kusama, Kerry James Marshall, Julie Mehretu, Takashi Murakami, Robert Rauschenberg, Ed Ruscha, Cindy Sherman, Cy Twombly, Andy Warhol, and more, plus an ever-growing representation of younger artists.

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In Under the Table, 1994, the viewer is both in the world of imaginary giants and in the world of remembered childhood. Fusing Alice in Wonderland with the Duchampian tradition of the readymade, Artist Robert Therrien constructs a doppelganger from an everyday object, both displaying his visual wit and actualizing literary or imaginative fantasy in three-dimensional space. The table exudes an extraordinary aura, compelling one to walk underneath the table and conjuring the physical memory of being under the table of one’s childhood home. Complicated and powerful, the work offers fresh ideas of what a table, sculpture, and memory can mean.

Using the recognizable form of a balloon twisted into the shape of a dog, Koons has frozen a moment in time, exaggerating both scale and material.
Balloon Dog (Blue) is literal and abstract. When standing close to it, one’s own distorted reflection bends around smooth pert curves.

General Admission is Free
The Broad requires all visitors must reserve timed tickets in advance. Some exhibitions and events carry a separate charge.

Hours
Monday: Closed
Tuesday – Wednesday: 11:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
Thursday – Friday: 11:00 a.m.-8:00 p.m.
Saturday: 10:00 a.m.-8:00p.m.
Sunday: 10:00 a.m.-6:00p.m.

For additional information, visit the website @
www.thebroad.org

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FOWLER MUSEUM AT UCLA
2022-12-07 12:00 - 17:00 | Fowler Museum at UCLA, 308 Charles E Young Dr N,, Los Angeles, CA, 90024, United States
FREE EVERY DAY! @ UCLA
The Fowler Museum at UCLA explores global arts and cultures with an emphasis on works from Africa, Asia, the Pacific, and the Americas—past and present. The Fowler enhances understanding and appreciation of the diverse peoples, cultures, and religions of the world through dynamic exhibitions, publications, and public programs, informed by interdisciplinary approaches and the perspectives of the cultures represented.
Also featured is the work of international contemporary artists presented within the complex frameworks of politics, culture and social action.
Fowler Museum at UCLA provides exciting, informative and thought-provoking exhibitions and events for the UCLA community and the people of greater Los Angeles and beyond.

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Areas of the Collection

ARTS OF AFRICA AND THE AFRICAN DIASPORA

One of the largest and finest in the United States, and one of the top twenty African collections worldwide, this collection offers a superb representation of the arts of many African nations, including objects from Senegal, Nigeria, Ghana, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of the Congo (formerly Zaire), Kenya, Zambia, and South Africa. The Yoruba collection alone is one of the three finest in the world. It contains a spectacular array of beaded objects, including a majestic throne, elaborate chiefly gowns, and sophisticated divination regalia.
A collection of post-apartheid election materials and contemporary South African art is being developed, as are a number of collections of popular urban arts from countries including Tanzania and Muslim Senegal. Recently, more than 400 textiles made by the Kuba peoples of the Democratic Republic of the Congo were gifted by the Christensen Foundation.
The collection represents some of the finest examples of men’s embroidered raffia pile cloths and women’s appliqué cloths. This collection complements already significant holdings of West African textiles from countries such as Mali and Ghana, including kente and adinkra cloth and Asafo flags. The museum also has significant holdings of arts from the African Americas, notably arts of Haitian Vodou, Brazil and Suriname.

ARTS OF THE AMERICAS

These holdings include a comprehensive collection of pre-Columbian ceramics with the best representations from West Mexico, the Valley of Mexico, and pre-Columbian Peru (with special strengths in the art of the Moche). The Fowler also possesses a cohesive collection of Guatemalan costumes; an extensive collection of Mexican clothing; textiles of Peru; and a comprehensive representation of field-collected market materials from Michoacan, Mexico. Complementing the pre-Columbian collections are field collections of the Warao and Yecuana Indians of the Orinoco Delta of Venezuela and contemporary Latin American popular arts including Mexican trees of life, Day of the Dead figures, and masks from Metepec, Oaxaca, Michoacan, Jalisco, Peubla, and Guanajuato.
Native American materials from the U.S. and Canada are a small but significant part of the collection. Materials from the United States and Canada include well-known Northwest Coast material, as well as a notable cross section of late nineteenth-century Inuit art and material culture.

ARTS OF ASIA AND THE PACIFIC

The Fowler Museum at UCLA collections from Insular Southeast Asia, including Indonesia, the Philippines, Malaysia, and aboriginal Taiwan, are among the strongest in the United States. The Indonesian and Philippine textiles reinforce the Fowler Museum’s standing as a major repository for the textile arts. Also included are significant collections of sculptural material from Sumatra, Borneo, Sulawesi, and Luzon, puppetry from Java and Bali, basketry from Indonesia and Philippines, and metalwork from the Philippines. The primary strength of the Pacific collections lies in materials from Papua New Guinea, especially the Papuan Gulf, Trobriand Islands, Sepik River, and Maprik region. Australia and Polynesia are also represented by sizeable collections, including 45 rare Maori cloaks.
The collections from mainland Asia are smaller but growing rapidly, due to current collecting priorities. A collection of betel-chewing paraphernalia, representing several countries in South and Southeast Asia, is considered one of the finest in the world. Other holdings include textiles from Bhutan, Pakistan, India and Japan, baskets and decorative arts from Japan, puppetry from China, Thailand, India, and Turkey, and art and artifacts from Nepal.

ARCHAEOLOGICAL COLLECTIONS

The Fowler Museum at UCLA also serves as a repository for archaeological collections acquired during research conducted by UCLA faculty, staff, students, and other professional archaeologists. Documentation of the collections includes artifact catalogs, excavation notes, maps, and photographs. These collections serve primarily as an archive for teaching and research. The Museum is compliant with guidelines mandates by the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) and has been signaled out by the State of California for its exemplary efforts.
Archaeological collection areas include:
California
Collections from approximately 1100 sites, mostly in Southern California.
Southwest
Significant collections from the Rainbow Bridge-Monument Valley Expedition of 1933-1938 and several Parowan Fremont sites in Utah excavated in the 1950’s, and other Anasazi and Hohokam sites.
Mexico
Includes objects from 218 sites, mostly in western and central Mexico.
Sudan
The Nubian/Egyptian fortress site at Askut is the source of approximately 60,000 artifacts excavated by UCLA archaeologist Alexander Badawy in conjunction with the Aswan High Dam Salvage Campaign, 1962-1964.
Old World stone tool collection
Includes tools from Europe and the Middle East.

MUSEUM HOURS

Admission is FREE
Monday: closed
Tuesday: closed
Wednesday: 12 – 8pm
Thursday: 12 – 5pm
Friday: 12 – 5pm
Saturday: 12 – 5pm
Sunday: 12 – 5pm

For additional information, visit the website @
fowler.ucla.edu

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Los Angeles Maritime Museum
2022-12-07 12:00 - 17:00 | Los Angeles Maritime Museum, Berth 84, Foot of 6th St., San Pedro, CA, 90731, United States
WEDNESDAY TO SUNDAY – San Pedro
Discover the history of the Port of Los Angeles on land or at sea! Welcome to the Los Angeles Maritime Museum where our hardworking harbor tug ANGELS GATE provides educational tours while our historic museum building houses fascinating exhibits, a research library, a ham radio station, and a gift shop.
OPEN EVERY WEDNESDAY TO SUNDAY FROM 12:00 pm TO 5:00 pm
FREE TO CHILDREN AGES 12 AND UNDER

Berth 84, Foot of 6th St., San Pedro, CA 90731
The Los Angeles Maritime Museum is housed in the former Municipal Ferry Terminal building, located on the main channel of the Los Angeles Harbor. It was designed in the Streamline Moderne style by architect Derwood Lydell Irvin of the Los Angeles Harbor Department. It was built in 1941 at Berth 84, by the Works Project Administration (WPA).
The ferry between San Pedro and Terminal Island ceased after the Vincent Thomas Bridge was opened to traffic in 1963. The building was then used for offices of the LA Harbor Department. The San Pedro Municipal Ferry Building is now a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
The Los Angeles Maritime Museum opened in 1979 as a result of widespread community efforts to save the historic building. It is the largest maritime museum on the West Coast. The museum’s interior renovation was designed by Modernist architect James Pulliam. The museum is operated by the City of Los Angeles Department of Recreation and Parks.

EXHIBITS
ANGELS GATE TUGBOAT

The tugboat ANGELS GATE arrived at the Museum in 1992, after almost 50 years of providing general towing services and goodwill tours for the Port of Los Angeles.
TĀMINARU

In the early 20th century, Terminal Island (in the Port of Los Angeles) was home to approximately 3,000 Japanese-Americans who earned their livelihood from catching and cleaning fish. Residents of this community, known as “Terminal Islanders” were originally from the Wakayama Prefecture, Japan, and retained their language and customs after emigrating to Los Angeles harbor.
Tāminaru is a look back at this lost community. The exhibit is guest curated by author Naomi Hirahara, organized by Tara Fansler, and sponsored by the Friends of the Los Angeles Maritime Museum and the Japan Business Association with the assistance of the Terminal Islanders Club.
POSEIDON MODEL

There is a movie star on the second floor! The model of the SS POSEIDON was the original prop in the 1972 classic film “The Poseidon Adventure”.
Fifteen men built the model over a period of three months. POSEIDON is 21 .5 feet long and weighs one ton. The builders relied on the plans of the RMS QUEEN MARY, now permanently docked as an attraction in Long Beach, California.
NAVY HALL

The Museum building, built-in 1941, was originally used as a ferry terminal, transporting people and automobiles between San Pedro and Terminal Island. The area of the first floor where cars would enter and exit is now used as the Navy Hall.
ANGELS GATE LIGHT

The Angels Gate Lighthouse (officially known as Los Angeles Harbor Light) has marked the entrance of Los Angeles Harbor through times of war and peace, and even survived a tidal wave! The tower itself has undergone many changes through the years. The distinctive green flash of the Angels Gate Lighthouse remains a welcoming beacon to professional mariners and recreational boaters alike.
KIDS EXHIBIT

Kids of all ages will discover what’s going on in the harbor today through a series of interactive games and activities in the children’s exhibit. Grab a pair of binoculars and take a close-up look at the nation’s busiest container port! Learn how cranes work, imagine yourself in a variety of harbor professions, build your own wharves, test your knowledge of ships and cargo, or just settle down and enjoy a nautical story!
Due to Covid-19-related precautions, the toys and costumes have been temporarily removed.
CAUGHT, CANNED, AND EATEN

The Port of Los Angeles (San Pedro) was the fishing capital of the nation for much of the twentieth century. Generations of fishermen sold catches of tuna, sardines, mackerel, and squid to fish markets or canneries on nearby Terminal Island.
Today, the fishing fleet is greatly diminished and the canneries have closed, but the legacy of the fishing and canning industries endures.
COMMERCIAL DIVING

This exhibit is an introduction to just a few of the thousands of jobs performed by commercial divers and fishery divers in the South Bay, and was the inspiration of the late Torrance R. Parker, noted commercial diver and author of 20,000 Jobs Under the Sea.
SCHOOL TOURS
The museum is pleased to offer educational tours throughout the year at no charge.
The museum is located on the Main Channel of Los Angeles Harbor. Students will have a front-row opportunity to see the massive container ships in action and learn about international trade, ship terminology, sailor’s art, and the history of the working people who built Los Angeles harbor into the nation’s busiest container port.
Tours are free for grades K-12, Wednesday –Friday mornings, and reservations are REQUIRED. The museum is unable to accommodate group tours without a reservation.
Call the tour hotline at 310-548-2900 and schedule your tour today, or email info@lamaritimemuseum.org.
RESEARCH
The Los Angeles Maritime Museum Research Library is home to thousands of books, historic photographs and archival documents waiting for you to discover!
Research questions can be directed to info@lamaritimemuseum.org and 310-548-7618 ext. 215.
Portions of our collection have online finding aids and digital records:
Online Archive of California (OAC)
Online Digital Collections

Suggested Donation:
Adults $5
Seniors (62+) $3
Children 12 & under FREE
Hours
Monday-Tuesday: Closed
Wednesday – Sunday: 12:00pm – 5:00pm

For additional information, visit the website @
www.lamaritimemuseum.org

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Institute of Contemporary Art Los Angeles
2022-12-07 12:00 - 17:00 | Institute of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, 1717 E 7th St,, Los Angeles, CA, 90021, United States
WEDNESDAY TO SUNDAY – Downtown Los Angeles
VISIT ICA LA TODAY! The Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (ICA LA) is an epicenter of artistic experimentation and incubator of new ideas. ICA LA is committed to making contemporary art relevant and accessible for all.
Open Wednesday – Sunday 12:00pm – 5:00pm
ADMISSION IS FREE!

Learning & Engagement

At ICA LA, we seek new ways to bring art into the life of our community, schools, families, and public and private institutions through our Learning & Engagement programs. We view our city as an ever-changing and dynamic landscape with the museum as a responsive tool, adaptable to its environment, poised to foresee community needs, and capable of meeting those needs at the highest level. Learn more about our programs and special projects below.

Public Programs

Public programs at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles support our mission in sparking the pleasure the discovery and challenging the way we see and experience the world, ourselves, and each other. We are dedicated to the exploration, scholarship, appreciation, and deeper understanding of the exhibitions and ideas on view at the ICA LA, and providing greater access to artists living and working in our community.
Our public programs introduce new ways of seeing an exhibition and support through contemporary art and take diverse forms—talks, workshops, screenings, and live performances—and are free and open to all.
You can also watch and listen to past lectures, discussions, and performances in the archive of public programs below.

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Special Projects
Special Projects at ICA LA is a series of initiatives that foster collaborative relationships with artists, community members and groups, and local small businesses.
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Digital Projects
Digital Projects at ICA LA explores Virtual Reality, 360° video, and Augmented Reality to offer additional visitor experience options; develop projects with artists, and present new forms of engagement and learning for the community.
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1717 E 7th St, Los Angeles, CA 90021

Founded in 1984 as the Santa Monica Museum of Art (SMMoA) and reestablished in 2017 with a new identity and home in Downtown Los Angeles, ICA LA builds upon a distinguished history of bold curatorial vision and innovative programming to illuminate the important untold stories and emerging voices in contemporary art and culture. The museum’s 12,700 square-foot renovated industrial building—designed by wHY Architecture under the leadership of Kulapat Yantrasast—features ample space for exhibitions, public programs, retail pop-ups, integrated offices, and special projects.
ICA LA’s mission is to support art that sparks the pleasure of discovery and challenges the way we see and experience the world, ourselves, and each other. ICA LA is committed to upending hierarchies of race, class, gender, and culture. Through exhibitions, education programs, and community partnerships, ICA LA fosters critique of the familiar and empathy with the different.

Hours
Monday – Tuesday: Closed
Wednesday – Sunday: 12:00pm – 5:00pm

For additional information, visit the website @
www.theicala.org/en

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SPACE SHUTTLE ENDEAVOUR
2022-12-08 10:00 - 17:00 | California Science Center, 700 Exposition Park Drive, Los Angeles, CA, 90037, United States
FREE EVERYDAY @ The California Science Center

Space Shuttle Endeavour
Come today to see up close and personal NASA”s OV-15 Space Shuttle Endeavour. The Endeavour successfully completed 25 missions into space, including the first service mission to the Hubble Space Telescope, as well as the first mission to add a U.S. component to the International Space Station.On display in the Samuel Oschin Pavilion

Admission to the Space Shuttle Endeavour is included with your special exhibit or IMAX ticket. Take your ticket to the Endeavour queue on the 2nd floor for admission. Shop our Endeavour web-store featuring the many new and exclusive space shuttle Endeavour products offered at the Science Center.

While we are building Endeavour’s permanent home, a new addition to the Science Center called the Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center, Endeavour can be viewed in the Samuel Oschin Pavilion. Guests who come to see Endeavour will begin their experience in Endeavour Together: Parts & People, a companion exhibit featuring artifacts from Endeavour and the external tank.
Following their visit to Endeavour Together, guests will be directed to the Samuel Oschin Pavilion to see Endeavour.

Samuel Oschin Pavilion
In the Samuel Oschin Pavilion, guests will be able to see Endeavour up close and discover some of the science behind this amazing vehicle.The pavilion will feature images and video to introduce guests to Endeavour’s past missions and the crews who flew them.

Endeavour Together: Parts & People
Endeavour Together: Parts & People celebrates Endeavour, the space shuttle program, and the people who helped make the program possible. The exhibit also highlights the shuttle program’s strong connection to California, where all the orbiters were built. Endeavour Together includes images of Endeavour under construction locally in Palmdale and Downey, as well as artifacts that flew into space aboard Endeavour. Dramatic video programs convey the emotion and power of Endeavour.

Rocketdyne Operations Support Center
The Rocketdyne Operations Support Center (ROSC) monitored every space shuttle launch, from the first to the last, from right here in Southern California.

Space Potty
The space potty, or Waste Collection System, provided a high-tech solution to one of space travel’s most pressing concerns.

Galley
Our galley served as a kitchen in space for astronauts aboard Endeavour.

Tires
Guests can touch these tires from Endeavour flight STS-134, which show the wear from landing on the runway.

Nose Cone
The nose cone protected sensors at the top of the space shuttle’s external tank.

Orthogrid
The orthogrid was carved from a single metal plate to be part of the wall of a super-lightweight space shuttle external tank (ET).

Mission 26: ET Comes Home
Experience ET-94’s move to the California Science Center through engaging photographs captured by Gil Garcetti. The exhibition highlights moments of ET-94’s trip through the Panama Canal, its arrival in Marina del Rey, and its journey through the streets of Los Angeles and Inglewood on the way to its new home.

Visit their reservation information page for details on how to get timed reservations to see Endeavour on display in the Pavilion.
*Endeavour Timed Reservations for individuals are required on weekends, holidays, and peak dates. For groups of 15 or more please call (213) 744-2019.

For additional information, visit the website @
californiasciencecenter.org

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Marion Davies Guest House Tour
2022-12-08 12:00 - 14:00 | Annenberg Community Beach House, 415 East Pacific Coast Highway, Santa Monica, CA, 90402, United States
OPEN WEEK DAYS – Santa Monica State Beach
Discover the history and architecture of the Marion Davies Guest House! Take a glimpse at the great costume parties Davies hosted, which included guests like Clark Gable and Greta Garbo. And learn about the transformation of the landmarked Guest House and pool, which survive as the historic core of the estate today.

TOURS ARE ON FRIDAY, SATURDAY, SUNDAY, MONDAY AT 12:00 pm TO 2:00 pm
Santa Monica Conservancy docents will be on hand to share the rich history of the Beach House site from the 1920s onward.

Free 20-minute docent tours are available on a walk-up basis, for groups of up to six people. Just head to the Marion Davies Guest House where you will be greeted by a docent.
Please mask up, masks are required indoors at City of Santa Monica facilities. Please do not visit if you are sick or experiencing COVID-19 symptoms.
*Hours are subject to change with a short notice from October through May. Please check the website calendar or call 310-458-4904 to confirm dates and closures.

GALLERY

Stop by the Beach House for Art Bank: Selected Works from the City of Santa Monica Art Collection and view pieces by standout artists from Southern California and further afield. Paintings, prints, photography, and sculpture join public art project maquettes and preparatory drawings for an eclectic mix of style and subject. The Art Bank municipal art collection was instituted in 1984 to bring art into Santa Monica’s public spaces and is funded through the City of Santa Monica’s Percent for Art Program.

415 Pacific Coast Highway, Santa Monica, CA, 90402

Year-round, enjoy a varied schedule of cultural programs, classes, and recreational amenities. The site is fully accessible, including a pool lift and beach wheelchair.
During the summer, explore amenities and programs including summer-inspired classes and the pool. Annual events include the Community Picnic and Cardboard Yacht Regatta. Reservations are available – though not required – for the canopies and beach courts. Beach courts reservations are available year-round.
Fall, winter, and spring offer more contemplative programming including Audubon Society Bird Walks, Happy Birthday Marion! and Julia Morgan Legacy Tours. This time of year also provides ample opportunity for businesses, organizations, and individuals to rent event spaces for meetings and special events. The site is also available for commercial film and photo shoots. Pop Up Pool Days may be scheduled around holiday weekends depending on weather and event bookings.
THINGS TO KNOW

The Annenberg Comunity Beach House is a public site, open to all. No membership or reservations are required!
The grounds including the playground, beach courts and fields, beach access, and the parking lot are open daily.
The public spaces including the courtyard, splash pad, and sandy areas open daily excluding select holidays, and are first-come, first-served with no charge to access. Reservations are not available for these areas
Tables, chairs, and umbrellas are available for use in the courtyard, splash pad, & view deck
The pool is open daily during the summer, with select weekends in late spring and early fall. The pool is closed for the season from October through May. See pool schedule and admission fees.
Reservable canopies in the sand are available during the summer through Reserve Santa Monica.
Year-round, guests are welcome to bring their own canopy, tables, and chairs to set up in the sandy areas. Please refer to below Beach House Rules for prohibited items
BEach volleyball courts and soccer fields are available to reserve year-round. First come, first served courts are also available.
Free Santa Monica wi-fi is available

FREE AMENITIES

Courtyard
Splash Pad
View Deck
PLayground
Beach Wheelchairs
First-come, first-served Beach Volleyball & Soccer Courts
Beach Access
City of Santa Monica

PAID AMENITIES

Parking
Pool
Classes
Reservable Canopies in the Sand
Standup Paddleboard Rentals
Reservable Beach Volleyball Courts

For additional information, visit the website @
annenbergbeachhouse.com

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The FOWLER MUSEUM: Intersections
2022-12-08 12:00 - 17:00 | Fowler Museum at UCLA, 308 Charles E Young Dr N,, Los Angeles, CA, 90024, United States
ONGOING EXHIBIT- Westwood Village, UCLA
UCLA Fowler Museum presents

Intersections: World Arts, Local Lives

The Fowler’s permanent collection exhibition, Intersections: World Arts, Local Lives explores how arts from cultures in Africa, Asia, the Pacific, and the Americas conceptually intersect with each other.
Most of this gallery is currently closed as we update the existing installation and contend with the lasting impact of violent colonial histories on museum collecting, interpretation, and display. While we undertake this work, we invite you to experience a portion of Intersections: Art and Transformation, which explores how objects intervene in the lives of those who make or use them—whether to heal through meditation and prayer; help with the transition to the afterlife; or communicate social, political, and cultural changes.

308 Charles E. Young Dr N, Los Angeles, CA 90024

FREE EVERY DAY! @ UCLA
The Fowler Museum at UCLA explores global arts and cultures with an emphasis on works from Africa, Asia, the Pacific, and the Americas—past, and present. The Fowler enhances understanding and appreciation of the diverse peoples, cultures, and religions of the world through dynamic exhibitions, publications, and public programs, informed by interdisciplinary approaches and the perspectives of the cultures represented.
Also featured is the work of international contemporary artists presented within the complex frameworks of politics, culture, and social action.
Fowler Museum at UCLA provides exciting, informative, and thought-provoking exhibitions and events for the UCLA community and the people of greater Los Angeles and beyond.

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Areas of the Collection

ARTS OF AFRICA AND THE AFRICAN DIASPORA

One of the largest and finest in the United States, and one of the top twenty African collections worldwide, this collection offers a superb representation of the arts of many African nations, including objects from Senegal, Nigeria, Ghana, Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (formerly Zaire), Kenya, Zambia, and South Africa. The Yoruba collection alone is one of the three finest in the world. It contains a spectacular array of beaded objects, including a majestic throne, elaborate chiefly gowns and sophisticated divination regalia.
A collection of post-apartheid election materials and contemporary South African art is being developed, as are a number of collections of popular urban arts from countries including Tanzania and Muslim Senegal. Recently, more than 400 textiles made by the Kuba peoples of the Democratic Republic of the Congo were gifted by the Christensen Foundation.
The collection represents some of the finest examples of men’s embroidered raffia pile cloths and women’s appliqué cloths. This collection complements already significant holdings of West African textiles from countries such as Mali and Ghana, including kente and adinkra cloth and Asafo flags. The museum also has significant holdings of arts from the African Americas, and notable arts from Haitian Vodou, Brazil, and Suriname.

ARTS OF THE AMERICAS

These holdings include a comprehensive collection of pre-Columbian ceramics with the best representations from West Mexico, the Valley of Mexico, and pre-Columbian Peru (with special strengths in the art of the Moche). The Fowler also possesses a cohesive collection of Guatemalan costumes; an extensive collection of Mexican clothing; textiles of Peru; and a comprehensive representation of field-collected market materials from Michoacan, Mexico. Complementing the pre-Columbian collections are field collections of the Warao and Yecuana Indians of the Orinoco Delta of Venezuela and contemporary Latin American popular arts including Mexican trees of life, Day of the Dead figures, and masks from Metepec, Oaxaca, Michoacan, Jalisco, Puebla, and Guanajuato.
Native American materials from the U.S. and Canada are a small but significant part of the collection. Materials from the United States and Canada include well-known Northwest Coast material, as well as a notable cross section of late nineteenth-century Inuit art and material culture.

ARTS OF ASIA AND THE PACIFIC

The Fowler Museum at UCLA collections from Insular Southeast Asia, including Indonesia, the Philippines, Malaysia, and aboriginal Taiwan, are among the strongest in the United States. The Indonesian and Philippine textiles reinforce the Fowler Museum’s standing as a major repository for the textile arts. Also included are significant collections of sculptural material from Sumatra, Borneo, Sulawesi, and Luzon, puppetry from Java and Bali, basketry from Indonesia and the Philippines, and metalwork from the Philippines. The primary strength of the Pacific collections lies in materials from Papua New Guinea, especially the Papuan Gulf, Trobriand Islands, Sepik River, and Maprik region. Australia and Polynesia are also represented by sizeable collections, including 45 rare Maori cloaks.
The collections from mainland Asia are smaller but growing rapidly, due to current collecting priorities. A collection of betel-chewing paraphernalia, representing several countries in South and Southeast Asia, is considered one of the finest in the world. Other holdings include textiles from Bhutan, Pakistan, India, and Japan, baskets and decorative arts from Japan, puppetry from China, Thailand, India, and Turkey, and art and artifacts from Nepal.

ARCHAEOLOGICAL COLLECTIONS

The Fowler Museum at UCLA also serves as a repository for archaeological collections acquired during research conducted by UCLA faculty, staff, students, and other professional archaeologists. Documentation of the collections includes artifact catalogs, excavation notes, maps, and photographs. These collections serve primarily as an archive for teaching and research. The Museum is compliant with guidelines mandated by the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) and has been signaled out by the State of California for its exemplary efforts.
Archaeological collection areas include:
California
Collections from approximately 1100 sites, mostly in Southern California.
Southwest
Significant collections from the Rainbow Bridge-Monument Valley Expedition of 1933-1938 and several Parowan Fremont sites in Utah were excavated in the 1950s, and other Anasazi and Hohokam sites.
Mexico
Includes objects from 218 sites, mostly in western and central Mexico.
Sudan
The Nubian/Egyptian fortress site at Askut is the source of approximately 60,000 artifacts excavated by UCLA archaeologist Alexander Badawy in conjunction with the Aswan High Dam Salvage Campaign, 1962-1964.
Old World stone tool collection
Includes tools from Europe and the Middle East.

MUSEUM HOURS

Admission is FREE
Monday – Tuesday: closed
Wednesday – Sunday: 12:00 pm – 5:00 pm

For additional information, visit the website @
fowler.ucla.edu

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Learn How To Meditate
2022-12-08 12:30 - 13:00, 2022-12-15 12:30 - 13:00 | ZOOM, CA
EVERY THURSDAY 12:30–1:00PM- Online via ZOOM.

Would you like to learn how to meditate? Join the Hammer Museum each Thursday for Mindful Awareness Meditation Online. Mindfulness Meditation is the moment-by-moment process of actively and openly observing one’s physical, mental, and emotional experiences. Mindfulness has scientific support as a means to reduce stress, improve attention, boost the immune system, reduce emotional reactivity, and promote a general sense of health and well-being. These half hour weekly sessions are open to all who are interested in learning how to live more presently in life. No special clothing is required, and participants are welcome to join for five minutes or enjoy the entire 30 minutes.

These free weekly drop-in sessions usually take place in the Hammer’s Billy Wilder Theater but are now offered live online via Zoom.
Mindful Awareness Meditation is provided by UCLA & The Hammer Museum

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Sessions are led by Diana Winston and other instructors from the UCLA Mindful Awareness Research Center. Visit www.marc.ucla.edu to learn more about the UCLA Mindful Awareness Research Center.
Winston has been practicing mindfulness meditation for more than 20 years, and when she began it was fairly unknown in this country. But today secular mindfulness meditation is taught to executives, war veterans and schoolchildren; it is used in prisons and hospitals, and is written about in women’s magazines.

ATTENDING THIS PROGRAM?
Learn How to Meditate live: RSVP to receive an email reminder on the day of the Mindful Awareness Meditation program with the link to tune in. The link to join will also be posted here 2 hours before the program starts. This program will not be recorded.
Help with Zoom: This program will be held on the Zoom platform. Visit zoom.us/test to join a test meeting, then follow the instructions to test your video and audio. If you have never used Zoom before, you will be prompted to download the Zoom app or join from your browser. Zoom works best on the Chrome browser.
Having trouble? Contact our visitor experience team at 310-443-7000.

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She starts by asking people to notice their breathing as they work toward “paying attention to present moment experiences with openness, curiosity and a willingness to be with what is.”

Can’t do this online class? Try the UCLA Mindfulness FREE APP and learn how to meditate anytime.
With this easy-to-use app, you can practice mindfulness meditation anywhere, anytime with the guidance of the UCLA Mindful Awareness Research Center. Scientific research shows mindfulness can help manage stress-related physical conditions, reduce anxiety and depression, cultivate positive emotions, and help improve overall physical health and well-being.

For additional information, visit the website @
https://hammer.ucla.edu

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Celebrate Human Connection
2022-12-08 12:30 - 16:00 | The Skirball Cultural Center, 2701 N. Sepulveda Blvd., Los Angeles, CA, 90049, United States
THE SKIRBALL CULTURAL CENTER – Sepulveda Pass
The Skirball Cultural Center is a place of meeting guided by the Jewish tradition. Welcoming the stranger and inspired by the American democratic ideals of freedom and equality. We welcome people of all communities and generations.

The Skirball Cultural Center participates in experiences that celebrate discovery and hope, foster human connections. There is a call upon us to help build a more just society.
Noah’s Ark at the Skirball

Crank up a giant conveyor belt to load up the animals two by two. You will be able to put the finishing touches on the Ark, then step on board to unpack and explore.
The Skirball Cultural Center invites you to make plans today to visit Noah’s Ark at the Skirball™, the permanent, award-winning children’s and family destination that’s the talk of the town!
Choose from an array of public programs, including the best in world music, new and classic films, thought-provoking readings and talks, adult education classes on history, art and literature, and more—as well as engaging programs for the whole family.

FREE tickets to all on Thursdays are first-come, first-served (no advance tickets). Free tickets are subject to availability, with a limit of ten tickets distributed per party.
All exhibitions, including Noah’s Ark, are included with Museum admission.

Driving Directions
The Skirball Cultural Center is located in the Sepulveda Pass just off the 405 Freeway, 2.5 miles south of the 101 Freeway. Traveling north or south on the 405, take the Skirball Ctr. Dr. exit and make a right onto Sepulveda Blvd. For customized driving directions, consult the Google Map and enter your starting address.
Rideshare and taxi drop-off—If you are visiting the Museum galleries or attending an event or program in Taper Courtyard or Haas Conference Center, request to be dropped off outside the main entrance. If you are attending an event or program in Ahmanson Hall, Herscher Hall, Guerin Pavilion, or Guerin Courtyard, you may wish to be dropped off at the North Parking garage, at the end of the Skirball’s main driveway.

Parking Information
Visitor parking is FREE at the Skirball, except during the Skirball’s summertime Sunset Concerts, which take place on six Thursday evenings in July and August. On Sunset Concerts evenings, parking is $15 per car. Please note: The Skirball parking garages are for Skirball visitors only.
Parking is available in the Skirball’s northern parking garage (“North Parking”), located underground at the end of the Skirball’s main driveway. Parking is also available in in the eastern parking garage (“East Parking”), located across Sepulveda Blvd.
Electric vehicle charging stations are located on L1 in the North Parking garage and P3 in East Parking garage. There is a four-hour time limit for use of these stations, which are reserved for vehicles in the process of charging only. For the safety of you and other visitors, please wrap the cord around the base.
To enter the North Parking garage—From Skirball Ctr. Dr., proceed up the Skirball’s main driveway, pass the Skirball’s main entrance on your left, follow the curve, and drive underground into the garage.
To enter the East Parking garage—From Sepulveda Blvd., turn onto Bergreen Pl., located north of Skirball Ctr. Dr., directly across Sepulveda from the Skirball’s main entrance.
NOTE: Street parking on surrounding streets, including Mulholland Drive, is strictly prohibited.

Public Transportation
Take public transportation to the Skirball via Metro Rapid 734 or Metro Local 234. Visit the Metro LA websitefor bus schedules.
Northbound—Metro Rapid 734/Metro Local 234 (towards Sylmar/San Fernando Valley): Passengers are picked up and dropped off at the Metro stop on the southeast corner of Bergreen Pl. and Sepulveda Blvd., directly across the Skirball’s main entrance. Upon arriving, cross Sepulveda Blvd. at the Bergreen Pl. crosswalk and enter the Skirball through the main entrance ahead of you.
Southbound—Metro Rapid 734/Metro Local 234 (towards the UCLA/Westwood): Passengers are picked up and dropped off at the Metro stop on the northwest corner of Herscher Way and Sepulveda Blvd., approximately 150 yards north of the Skirball’s main entrance. Upon arriving, head south along Sepulveda Blvd. and enter the Skirball.

Admission
$12 General | $9 Seniors, Full-Time Students with ID, and Children over 12
$7 Children 2–12 | FREE to Members & Kids under 2
FREE to All Every Thursday!
Hours
Monday – Friday: 12:30 p.m. -4:30 p.m.
Saturday – Sunday: 10:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m.

RESERVED TICKETS REQUIRED

For additional information, visit the website @
skirball.org

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The Museum of Contemporary Art
2022-12-08 17:00 - 20:00 | MOCA- Museum Of Contemporary Art, 250 S Grand Ave, Los Angeles, CA, 90012, United States
ONE MUSEUM. TWO LOCATIONS- Free Every Thursday

Welcome to The Museum of Contemporary Art. With two distinct venues—MOCA Grand Avenue and The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA—and Michael Heizer’s seminal artwork Double Negative (1969-70) in the Nevada desert, we engage audiences through an ambitious program of exhibitions, educational programs, and publishing.

Welcome to The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

We are contemporary.
We question and adapt to the changing definitions of art.

We are a museum.
We present, collect, and interpret the art of our time.

We care
for the experience of art, the inevitability of change, the multiplicity of perspectives, the urgency of contemporary expression.

With 2 distinct venues in Los Angeles

MOCA Grand Avenue
250 South Grand Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90012
Architect Arata Isozaki designed MOCA Grand Avenue in 1986 with classical architecture and Los Angeles popular culture in mind. Today this location hosts the museum’s main galleries, Lemonade café, the flagship location of the MOCA Store, and staff offices.
more info at: Grand Ave

250 S Grand Ave
Los Angeles, CA 90012

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The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA
152 North Central Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90012
A former police car warehouse in L.A.’s Little Tokyo Historic District, renovated by the noted California architect Frank Gehry, The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA (formerly The Temporary Contemporary) opened in 1983. This location offers 40,000 square feet of exhibition space.
more info at: Geffen

and Michael Heizer’s seminal artwork Double Negative (1969-70) in the Nevada desert,
Overton Airport- Mormon Mesa, Overton, Nevada (80 miles from Las Vegas)
1110 Airport Road
Overton, NV 89040
Double Negative was constructed by Michael Heizer in the Nevada desert in 1969 and remains one of the few still extant examples of what are commonly referred to as earthworks, land art, or environmental sculpture. The land art movement first appeared in the late 1960s and served to challenge the location, material, size, and temporal existence of a work of art. Double Negative consists of two long straight trenches, 30 feet wide and 50 feet deep, cut into the “tabletop” of Mormon Mesa, displacing 240,000 tons of desert sandstone. The cuts face each other across an indentation in the plateaus’ scalloped perimeter, forming a continuous image, a thick linear volume that bridges and combines the “negative” space between them.
more info at: Double Negative

Admission to Double Negative by artist Michael Heizer is always free.

Hours
Monday: 11:00 a.m.-6:00p.m.
Tuesday: Closed
Wednesday: 11:00 a.m.-6:00p.m.
Thursday: 11:00 a.m.-8:00p.m.
Friday: 11:00 a.m.-6:00p.m.
Saturday – Sunday: 11:00 a.m.-5:00p.m.

General Admission: Free
Special exhibitions: $18
Members: Free
Children under 12: Free
Seniors and students: $10
Special exhibitions are free every Thursday, 5-8pm.

For additional information, visit the website @
www.moca.org

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Los Angeles Fire Museum
2022-12-09 09:00 - 14:00 | LA Fire Museum, 16400 Bellflower Blvd, Bellflower, CA, 90706, United States
WEDNESDAY TO SATURDAY – Los Angeles
The Los Angeles County Fire Museum is a public museum dedicated to the history of the Los Angeles County Fire Department in Los Angeles County, California. The museum has some 60 antique fire engines in its collection, including fire engines from the 1860s through just-retired apparatus.
OPEN Wednesday through Saturday from 9:00 am to 2:00 pm.
When you arrive, please have a $5 donation ready for each visitor over 12 years old.
FREE ADMISSION for Our Members, Active & Retired LACoFD Firefighters, Active Military, and children 12 and under.
We accept cash, checks, and credit cards.

Our docents are retired Firefighters, many of whom have worked on our more recent apparatus, or similar rigs. Your guides are extremely knowledgeable and just about the friendliest group of people you will meet. They have stories to tell and are open to sharing them with you.
Antique fire apparatus are the stars of the showroom. Some of our finest specimens are on display. The world-famous television show EMERGENCY! 51’s are all here; The Crown Engine 51, the Ward LaFrance Engine 51, and Squad 51. We have rigs from the late 1800s through the 20th Century all shined up and ready for your inspection. The City of Bellflower’s first Los Angeles County Fire Department engine, Engine 23, is here. This apparatus underwent a massive restoration in preparation for the Museum’s grand opening in July of 2018.
Display cases surround the showroom and are full of very interesting fire-related artifacts. Visit our famous Engine Company 51 Store, our Museum gift shop. Most items are available online, but not all. You will have a close-up view of our special items available for purchase in-house only.
Group tours and private visits will be accommodated if possible. Please use the Contact Us form to provide us with your dates and other pertinent information so we may try to accommodate you the best we can.
When you get hungry, the Museum is located in central downtown Bellflower alongside many fine Local Restaurants. You will find many cuisines to choose from, like sushi, bar-b-q, custom sandwiches, Italian, Mexican, burgers, and more.

16400 Bellflower Blvd, Bellflower, CA 90706
The Los Angeles County Fire Museum is the brand for the public face. The County of Los Angeles Fire Museum Association is the official organization that oversees all of the Museum’s assets.
In the mid-1970s, two Los Angeles County Firefighters began what would become The County of Los Angeles Fire Museum Association. By the end of the 80s, our Museum was formally organized under the State of California as a not-for-profit public benefit corporation.
The Association acquired, and still maintains, a space in the LACo Fire Department Headquarters in Los Angeles, storage units at the Department’s Air facility in Pacoima, and a large warehouse in South Gate. Around the year 2000, the Association rented an old auto repair shop from the city of Bellflower, CA. This facility became the first public face for the Association and allowed us to open to the public for the first time.
In July of 2018, the City of Bellflower became a partner with the Association. The showcase Museum is located on the bottom floor of Bellflower’s MAYNE EVENTS CENTER. The auto body repair building was purchased by The Association the same year and now houses the Los Angeles County Fire Museum’s “The Shop”, the place where all the hard restoration work is now performed.
MISSION STATEMENT

Celebrate the history of the American Fire Service and the contributions made to that history by the Los Angeles County Fire Department.
Document and present the evolution, history, and impact of fire-based Emergency Medical Services.
Acquire, preserve, and present artifacts, apparatus, photographs, and documents, along with other materials, which assist in the presentation of our history.
Restore antique fire apparatus to accurately reflect their respective histories.

For additional information, visit the website @
www.lacountyfiremuseum.com/visit-us

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The Venice Oceanarium
2022-12-11 11:00 - 14:00 | Venice Oceanarium, Venice Fishing Pier, Marina del Rey, CA, 90292, United States
SUNDAYS- Venice Beach Pier
Venice Oceanarium EVERY SUNDAY, 11am – 2pm. @ Venice Pier. A Museum without Walls teaches kids about Marine Biology & the Santa Monica Bay!
Our oceanographic display includes rare specimens, shark jaws, and historical artifacts. Be a Citizen Scientist and help us gather ocean data from our water testing kits. Observe grains of sand and seawater samples under our microscopes. Read ocean-inspired poetry, draw, and learn about the sea life just beneath the pier. We have new enlightening programs every week.
The pier juts 1000 feet out over the open sea, with saltwater breezes and spectacular coastline views! Besides our marine specimens, you’ll see migratory birds perched on the pilings, dolphins, interesting catches reeled in, and local surfer species.

The Venice Oceanarium is a non-profit based in Venice Beach, California. Just steps away from the world-famous Venice Boardwalk, there are ecosystems teeming with wildlife waiting to be explored. Since 1995, countless people have enjoyed our outdoor classrooms through hands-on learning.
OUR MISSION is to ignite a passion for the abundance, diversity, and significance of the web of life in our ocean and its shores. The Venice Oceanarium emphasizes the powerful and enduring emotional and aesthetic influences of the oceans on human culture.
OUR VISION is to build a permanent exhibit on the Venice Pier that educates and inspires visitors about the unique and wondrous life forms in our local ocean.

About Venice Oceanarium
Back in 1995 our founder, Tim Rudnick, organized a weekend-long marathon reading of Moby-Dick at the Venice Beach breakwater. Reliving life aboard a whaling ship and Melville’s soul-searching journey while the group huddled for warmth on the sand was a transformative experience. Tim realized the importance of learning outside of the traditional classroom and founded the Venice Oceanarium, a Museum Without Walls.

This concept of blending the arts and sciences is the core of our programming. We believe that our integrative curriculum inspires kids of all ages to be stewards of our precious oceans.
Over the years we’ve expanded our outreach to include our highly anticipated annual grunion party, weekly Marine Biology pop-up labs at the end of the Venice Pier, classes at local schools and youth centers, tidepool talks, wetland walks, and other excursions.
Venice Beach: An Urban Coastal Park

Venice Beach is a wonderful juxtaposition of urban life and natural wonder. Just steps from the world-famous Venice Beach Boardwalk’s street artists and performers are miles of beautiful shoreline to explore. Wide sandy beaches, crashing waves, shells, seaweed, birds, and other wildlife coexist with surfers, sunbathers, and sandcastles.
The tidepools at the Venice Beach Breakwater are teeming with wildlife (to be enjoyed with your eyes only) as the iconic and colorful Venice graffiti walls loom in the background. There’s a secret reef, and beautiful wetlands, and on a clear day, you can see Malibu and Catalina Island.
Millions of locals and visitors enjoy our beaches. Few stop to really appreciate the rare treasures it has to offer. Our mission is to excite, engage and inspire kids of all ages to appreciate our unique urban coast.
Experiential Learning

The Venice Oceanarium is a Museum Without Walls. Our programs combine science with the arts to encourage kids (of all ages) to appreciate the environment and therefore become stewards of our oceans. We believe that this integrative curriculum of poetry, literature, music, drawing, and performance arts teaches by experiencing the world around us on a more profound level than books and classrooms alone provide.
We design our events and activities to raise awareness of the natural wonders of Venice Beach. Join us on our learning expedition!

For additional information, visit the website @
www.veniceoceanarium.org/programs

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USC Pacific Asian Museum
2022-12-11 11:00 - 17:00 | USC Pacific Asia Museum, 46 North Los Robles Avenue, Pasadena, CA, 91101, United States
WEDNESDAY TO SUNDAY – Pasadena
Visit USC Pacific Asian Museum! An integral part of the University of Southern California, the USC Pacific Asia Museum creates inspiring encounters with the art, history, and culture of Pacific Asia to promote intercultural understanding in the service of elevating our shared sense of humanity.
RESERVE YOUR TICKETS TODAY!
USC PAM recommends that all visitors, including members, reserve advance timed-entry tickets online.
Admission will be paid what you wish every Thursday!
Covid Safety Protocols:

We strongly recommend wearing a mask covering the nose and mouth for all visitors (2+) regardless of vaccination status while indoors.
Please practice social distancing from others, not at your party.
Please stay home if you feel ill or have been exposed to COVID-19.

Please note that the above is subject to change per Los Angeles County, City of Pasadena, and USC Health guidelines.
FREE ADMISSIONS TO ALL VISITORS EVERY SECOND SUNDAY OF EACH MONTH

ADMISSION
Tickets to USC Pacific Asia Museum may be purchased upon entrance.
Discounts are available for students and seniors.

$10 for General Admission
$7 for Students with a valid ID and Seniors (65+)
Free for Children Ages 17 and Under
Free for all Museum Members, USC faculty, staff, and students with current ID
Free for all Visitors the Second Sunday of the Month
Pay What You Wish Every Thursdays
Adult Group Tours: Learn about the arts and culture of Asia and the Pacific Islands through adult group tours. USC PAM offers self-guided group visits and docent-led tours of the permanent collection and special exhibition galleries. For more information or to book your group tour, please email info@pam.usc.edu.

THINGS TO KNOW
Pets
Pets are not permitted in the museum galleries or courtyard garden with the exception of service animals.
Photography
There is no flash photography allowed in any of the galleries. Photos without a flash and for personal use are allowed in the permanent collections galleries. There is no photography of any kind allowed in the changing exhibition galleries. For commercial and wedding photography, please get in touch with info@pam.usc.edu for availability and pricing.
Food
There is no food or drink allowed in the museum galleries. There is no food service available inside the museum, however, the Paseo Colorado and several restaurants are within easy walking distance from the building.
Bicycles
There is a public bicycle rack on the sidewalk outside the museum. This is not on museum property and visitors park there at their own risk.
Smoking
There is no smoking allowed anywhere on the museum premises.

46 North Los Robles Avenue, Pasadena, California 91101
Established in 1971, the museum is one of few U.S. institutions dedicated to the arts and culture of Asia and the Pacific Islands, serving the city of Los Angeles and the Greater Southern California region. The museum’s mission is to further intercultural understanding through the arts of Asia and the Pacific Islands.
The museum’s historic building has served as a center for art, culture, and learning in Pasadena since its construction in 1924 by pioneering collector and entrepreneur Grace Nicholson (1877-1948) as her residence, galleries, and Treasure House/emporium. Ms. Nicholson’s championing of Asian art early in the century set the tone for much of the Pasadena community’s arts-related activities during the ensuing decades. The building also served as the site of the Pasadena Art Museum, which was renowned for its groundbreaking exhibitions of contemporary art. Pacific Asia Museum combined the spirits of both its predecessors in its focus on the classic and contemporary arts of Asia and the Pacific Islands. In 2013, the University of Southern California partnered with the museum to form USC Pacific Asia Museum. The affiliation broadened the community that benefits from the museum’s role as a vital resource for education and cultural heritage and expanded the audience’s interest in a dialogue about art, history, and culture.

VISION
USC PAM is a dynamic and innovative teaching and learning resource for USC and its surrounding communities featuring;

Exhibitions that contest worn assumptions, bridge perspectives, and expand understanding
Educational opportunities that connect cultures, disciplines, and generations
Programs that engage our common life, even in the absence of common ground

VALUES
At USC PAM we believe in the power of art to connect us to our deepest humanity and that of others.
As such, we:

Support the Mission and Vision of USC.
Enlist art to expand understanding and bridge divides.
Collect and exhibit exemplary works that amplify artist voices and lift up community narratives.
Steward the objects entrusted to our care for the benefit of successive generations.
Use our resources to inspire a plurality of audiences.
Foster a sense of community both on and off-campus.
Explore and validate diversity.
Promote civil and civic discourse.
Secure long-term sustainability.
Manage resources prudently.

Hours
Monday-Tuesday: Closed
Wednesday – Sunday: 11:00am – 5:00pm

For additional information, visit the website @
pacificasiamuseum.usc.edu/

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Life! Beginnings
2022-12-12 08:00 - 17:00 | California Science Center, 700 Exposition Park Drive, Los Angeles, CA, 90037, United States
OPEN DAILY- California Science Center
The California Science Center Life! Beginnings celebrates life’s incredible ability to make more life. Discover how humans and all living creatures reproduce, develop, and pass on their genes to bring new life into the world.
Perform a mating dance with other animals, build a baby pigeon by mixing and matching its parents’ genes, and practice different parenting strategies from the animal kingdom. Step inside an immersive womb room to experience the human journey from conception to birth, and marvel at real fetal specimens. Experience the wonder of animal life cycles as live sphinx moths transform from hungry green caterpillars to fuzzy moths the size of your hand.
Life! Beginnings is located on the second floor World of Life gallery. This new exhibition is the first phase of a planned renovation of the entire World of Life gallery.

Discover how humans and living creatures reproduce, develop, and pass on the genes to bring new life into the world.

Experience the human journey, from conception to birth, inside an immersive womb room, and view real plastinated fetal specimens.

Build a baby pigeon and learn how genes from parents mix to create unique offspring.

Practice different parenting strategies from the animal kingdom and try to help your offspring reach adulthood.

Discover how different species reproduce by exploring brilliant, life-size models.

Hours
Open Daily: 10:00am – 5:00pm
General Admission is FREE! Timed-entry reservations are required

For additional information, visit the website @
californiasciencecenter.org/exhibits/life-beginnings

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CRUISING ON A SUNDAY AFTERNOON
2022-12-12 10:00 - 15:30 | Automotive Driving Museum, 610 LAIRPORT ST, EL SEGUNDO, CA, 90245, United States
EVERY SUNDAY- Automobile Driving Museum’s

Come cruising on a Sunday afternoon at the Automobile Driving Museum. One of the unique features of the museum is that on Sundays, guests are given a rare opportunity. Sunday Car Rides take place in a piece of history, as you are whisked around in one of several pristine classic vintage cars from the museum’s collection.
Sundays 10:00 a.m.–3:30 p.m.
Subject to availability.
Please call the museum the Thursday before to get the Ride List!
Sunday Car Rides do not need a reservation. They are first come, first served.
Please call 310-909-0950 ext. 200 to schedule a private tour with rides any other day at a special rate!

Upon returning from you Sunday Car Ride to the museum, visitors can embark on several tours of the facility and its impressive collection of automobilia.

The Automobile Driving Museum’s mission is to collect, preserve, exhibit and ride in historic vehicles.
WE HAVE CARS. LOTS OF THEM.
130+
Vintage, Antique and Muscle Cars
We use our collection to present educational opportunities, new age engineering and cultural evolution of the automobile.

The Automobile Driving Museum is a great place to bring a group of kids for an afternoon of fun and education.
We welcome visits from summer camps, church groups and schools to offer them STEM projects and fun activities. Call ahead and we will arrange to have a docent on hand to give an informative tour of the museum’s car collection. We have an activity room that can host a group of 25-45 kids plus adults with tables for arts and crafts.

Scavenger Hunt

Ask at the front desk about the scavenger hunt on your next visit to Automobile Driving Museum. Follow the clues to discover hidden surprises and interesting facts throughout the museum.
Kids Area
Visiting kids will have fun in our kids area playing with cars and tracks, dress-up and mechanic tent. There are two cars that kids are welcome to play in as well being the perfect set-up for a memorable photograph.

Join us for Hot Wheels Garage

Life-sized Hot Wheels, Raffle Prizes, Hot Wheels + Endless Tracks, Train rides, Go-Karts and much much more. @10:00 am to 1:00 pm Check flyer below for schedule because dates will vary.

Admission ( Suggested Museum Donations )

Children 10 & under get in FREE
Children (11-17) $5
Adults $15
Family of Four $25

Hours
Open Tuesday-Sunday
10:00 a.m.–4:00 p.m.
Ride Along: Every Sunday, 10:00 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.

For additional information, visit the website @
https://www.automobiledrivingmuseum.org

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UCLA Meteorite Collection
2022-12-12 13:00 - 16:00 | UCLA Meteorite Gallery, Geology Building, Room 3697, 595 Charles Young Drive East, Westwood Village, CA, 90024, United States
FREE WEEKDAYS- UCLA Westwood Village
The UCLA Collection of Meteorites is the largest on the West Coast and contains over 2500 samples from about 1500 different meteorites. It is the fifth largest collection of meteorites in the United States and the second largest housed at a university.

Our collection includes the main masses of about 40 meteorites and the type specimens of more than 300 meteorites collected from hot deserts; 60 of these are iron meteorites. Eighty of these meteorite type specimens are from the state of California. These were collected by local citizens during the past few decades, mainly from the playas (dry lakes) scattered around the Mojave Desert.

Some of our meteorites are large and well suited for exhibits (in fact, some of them are exhibited at the Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History). However, most of the samples are small and mainly of value for research.

The study of meteorites and the processes that formed them is called cosmochemistry. The cosmochemists at UCLA are among the most productive university researchers in the world. It is thus appropriate that we have one of the best university meteorite collections.

We are in the second year of operating a Meteorite Gallery, located in room 3697 of the Geology Building. Opened in January 2014, the Gallery is open to the public weekdays from 9 am to 4 pm. CLOSED WEEKENDS. Admission is always free. The current exhibits will gradually expand as funds and additional samples are obtained. For highlights of the Meteorite Gallery please click here.

We are eager to add meteorites to the UCLA collection. If you have a meteorite collection and are interested in considering a donation, we would like to hear from you. You can contact us here.

LOCATION
The Meteorite Gallery is located in room 3697 of the Geology Building on the UCLA campus.
595 Charles E. Young Dr.
East, Los Angeles, CA, 90095.

For additional information, visit the website @
meteorites.ucla.edu
Hours
Monday – Friday: 9:00am – 5:00pm
Saturday & Sunday: Closed

For additional information, visit the website @
meteorites.ucla.edu

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INVESTIGATING GRIFFITH PARK
2022-12-13 10:00 - 16:00 | Autry Museum of the American West, 4700 Western Heritage Way, Los Angeles, CA, 0027-1462, United States
NOW ON VIEW- The Autry Museum

The Autry Museum of the American West wants to know, “What makes Griffith Park special to you?” In a city with such diversity as Los Angeles, The Autry is reaching out to Angelenos in hopes to hear from as many people as possible.

What makes Griffith Park special to you? For many Angelenos, the name evokes a panorama of memories—from picnics, hikes, horses, and softball games to the zoo, observatory, trains, and, of course, the Autry.

But how much do you really know about Griffith Park? How did it come to be, and what are its best-kept secrets? Join us as we explore stories about Griffith Park, a landscape that we honor as Tongva/Gabrielino land and a public park for Los Angeles.

To celebrate Griffith Park’s 125th anniversary in 2021, the Autry, has opened a community-led exhibition. The Autry’s newest exhibition, Investigating Griffith Park, a hands-on space that invites visitors to share their stories, experiences, and input on what the anniversary celebration should include.

One section of the current gallery asks, “What is the park to you?” and invites visitors to write responses. The museum says that while the public’s notes may influence the final exhibition, they’re also helping the museum plan future questions, focus group topics, and talk-back sessions with partner organizations.

While the Autry designed the gallery as a way to gather feedback from the public, it’s also a great introduction to what the park offers. Visitors will find historical artifacts and photos, video clips of Griffith Park’s many movie appearances, a kids’ play area, and an oversized board game about P-22, the beloved mountain lion.
Even the area of the park where the Autry is located has a fascinating history. In addition to the upcoming anniversary exhibition, the Autry’s long-term plan includes building a research archive around Griffith Park in order to make it easier for people to study the park and to spur further research.

Timeline:
Currently open in its first phase of development, we welcome your feedback as we further transform one of the Autry’s core galleries into an experiential, hands-on space. Through Investigating Griffith Park, we are gathering input from hundreds of visitors and experts to reveal some of the many stories from the park’s 4,000-plus acres. Keep watching this space for future updates, and sign up for our Investigating Griffith Park email list here.
PHASE I: DISCOVERY | 2018
Public discussions, hands-on activities, and feedback loops helped us learn what you wanted to know about the park.
PHASE II: IDEA TESTING | 2019–2020
Watch as the gallery further transforms based on community input.
PHASE III: EXHIBITION FINALIZED
Experience the exhibition fully when phase III is completed in connection with the 125th anniversary of Griffith Park!

The Autry Museum of the American West, 4700 Western Heritage Way, Griffith Park. The museum is open Tuesday-Friday 10 a.m.–4 p.m. and Saturday and Sunday 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tickets may be purchased onsite or online.
Hours
FREE EVERY 2nd TUESDAY of the MONTH- Griffith Park

Tuesday: Closed
Tuesday – Friday: 10:00am – 4:00pm
Saturday & Sunday: 10:00am – 5:00pm

For additional information, visit the website @
https://theautry.org/exhibitions/investigating-griffith-park

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FREE ADMISSION TODAY at the Autry Museum
2022-12-13 11:00 - 16:00 | Autry Museum of the American West, 4700 Western Heritage Way, Los Angeles, CA, 0027-1462, United States
FREE EVERY 2nd TUESDAY of the MONTH- Griffith Park
Discover the Autry Museum of the American West, and discover art, history, and cultures of the American West! Located in beautiful Griffith Park, the Autry features world-class galleries filled with Native American art and cultural materials, film memorabilia, historic firearms, paintings, interactive areas, and more.

Throughout the year, the Autry also presents a wide range of public events and programs—including lectures, film, theater, festivals, family activities, and music—and performs scholarship, research, and educational outreach. The Autry’s collection of more than 500,000 pieces of art and artifacts includes the Southwest Museum of the American Indian Collection, one of the largest and most significant collections of Native American materials in the United States.

Voted “Favorite Museum” by Los Angeles Daily News Readers, 2014–2018!

The Autry is accredited by the American Alliance of Museums (AAM), the field’s primary vehicle for quality assurance, self-regulation, and public accountability. AAM-accredited museums have demonstrated they meet standards and best practices and shown themselves to be core educational entities that are good stewards of the collections and resources they hold in the public trust. Of the nation’s estimated 33,000 museums, approximately 1,075 are currently accredited.
Learn more about exhibitions, public events, collections, kid-friendly activities, and membership options.
Autry Museum of the American West Mission Statement
The Autry brings together the stories of all peoples of the American West, connecting the past with the present to inspire our shared future. The Autry promotes research and educational activities, encourages the development of pathbreaking scholarship, and reaches a broad audience through programs and publications. Learn more and search the collections.

The Autry Online
The Autry’s doors may be temporarily closed to the public, but that’s not going to stop us from bringing all the stories of the American West to you. Find below links to blog posts, Collection Spotlights, videos, educational resources, our new Is This a Western? series, and more!

Autry Original Series
Collections and Stories
Educational Resources
Music and Poetry
Native Culture & History
Virtual Discussions

Hours
Tuesdays – Sundays: 11:00 a.m.- 4:00 p.m.
Mondays: Closed

For additional information, visit the website @
https://theautry.org/

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THE HAMMER MUSEUM
2022-12-13 11:00 - 20:00 | Hammer Museum, 10899 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA, 90024, United States
FREE FOR GOOD! Westwood Village
The Hammer Museum champions the art and artists who challenge us to see the world in a new light, to experience the unexpected, to ignite our imaginations, and inspire change.

The Hammer understands that art not only has the power to transport us through aesthetic experience but can also provide significant insight into some of the most pressing cultural, political, and social questions of our time. We share the unique and invaluable perspectives that artists have on the world around us.
A vibrant intellectual and creative nexus, the Hammer is fueled by dynamic exhibitions and programs—including lectures, symposia, film series, readings, and musical performances—that spark meaningful encounters with art and ideas.
And through our unwavering commitment to free admission and free public programs, the Hammer is open for all and FREE FOR GOOD.

A BIGGER, BETTER HAMMER MUSEUM

If oil magnate Armand Hammer were alive today, he might marvel that the museum he launched in Westwood before his death in 1990 has evolved into one of the most forward-focused art institutions in Los Angeles. After all, the museum was originally designed to house his fine collection of old-master paintings and drawings, as well as works on paper by Honoré Daumier and his 19th-century contemporaries.

But in the ensuing decades, as the art world has continued to evolve, so has Los Angeles — and so has the Hammer Museum, which is now a part of the UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture. In 1994, UCLA assumed management and operations of the museum, and the Hammer kept its original purpose but also expanded its mission. Today, the Hammer has a wide reputation for innovation and for showcasing new artists.

New Contemporary Gallery

“L.A. has become a hotbed of contemporary art and artists,” says Ann Philbin, the museum’s director since 1999, “and the Hammer has become a premier institution where they are shown.”

4th-Floor-Offices

Under Philbin’s leadership, the museum has expanded its collections and programs, including establishing the Hammer Projects series of exhibitions and installations featuring local, national and international emerging artists. It also launched the Made in L.A. biennial, now in its fourth edition. Through these and other innovations, the Hammer has quadrupled its attendance to about 250,000 a year.

Lindbrook Terrace

Meanwhile, Occidental Petroleum, which occupied the adjoining building, relocated to Houston, Texas. So the Hammer has begun a major, multiyear expansion that will take the museum far into the 21st century.
Earlier this year, the Hammer announced a $180 million capital campaign. Almost half of those funds will be used to expand gallery and other public spaces, while the rest will go toward exhibitions, programming and an endowment. The museum has already raised more than $130 million, including $30 million from L.A. philanthropists Lynda and Stewart ’59, J.D. ’62 Resnick and $20 million from Hammer board chair Marcy Carsey.

Annex

The renovations and additions being designed by Michael Maltzan Architecture, who was commissioned in 2000 to create the museum’s 2003 master plan, include:
• A newly designed entrance at Wilshire and Westwood boulevards to maximize the museum’s visual presence at one of the nation’s busiest intersections. In the coming years, the museum will also benefit from a planned Metro Purple Line station across Wilshire.
• More than 10,000 square feet of additional exhibition space for contemporary art.
• New permanent collection galleries and a study room for the Grunwald Center Collection.
• 20,000 square feet of enhanced public spaces, including a new restaurant.
• A new and more accessible Hammer Store.

2nd Floor B Side

In all, the expansion will provide 60 percent more gallery space for exhibitions. The museum will remain open during construction, and admission will continue to be free. “We’re accessible to everyone, and that keeps people coming back,” Philbin says. “L.A. has been growing as one of the world’s most exciting cultural creative communities, and the museum has grown alongside it.”

Bookstore
HISTORY OF THE HAMMER MUSEUM
The Hammer Museum opened to the public in November 1990. Founded by Dr. Armand Hammer, former Chairman of Occidental Petroleum Corporation, the Museum was designed by architect Edward Larrabee Barnes. Financed by Occidental, the Museum was built adjacent to the Corporation’s international headquarters in Westwood. At that time, the Museum featured galleries for Dr. Hammer’s collections — old master paintings and drawings, and a collection of works on paper by Honore Daumier and his contemporaries — as well as galleries for traveling exhibitions. Dr. Hammer passed away in December 1990, three weeks after the opening of the Museum leaving many spaces unfinished.
In 1992, the Museum began negotiations with its neighbor, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), to assume the management and operations of the institution. In April 1994, the partnership with UCLA was finalized and the following year the University relocated its collections and the staff of the Wight Art Gallery and the Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts to the Hammer. The Museum also assumed responsibility for the Franklin D. Murphy Sculpture Garden, located at the north end of the UCLA campus.
Henry Hopkins, then director of the Wight gallery and professor in the Department of Art, became director of the Museum until his retirement in 1998. In 1999 Ann Philbin was named director and has developed a strong and original institutional identity and built a national and international reputation for thematic contemporary exhibitions, scholarly historical exhibitions, and contemporary artists’ projects. During her tenure the Hammer has formed a Hammer Contemporary Collection which now holds over 2,000 artworks. In addition, Philbin has overseen substantial renovations to the museum’s building, including the completion of the 300-seat Billy Wilder Theater and museum café. With Philbin’s direction, the museum instituted the internationally acclaimed Hammer Projects, a series of more than one hundred contemporary exhibitions and installations featuring local, national, and international emerging artists. Philbin also created a series of dynamic public programs which are core to the Hammer’s identity and regularly feature many of the most influential authors, artists, and creative thinkers of our time.

Hours
The museum is open every day, except Mondays, July 4, Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year’s Day.
Monday: Closed
Tuesday – Friday: 11:00 a.m.-8:00p.m.
Saturday & Sunday: 10:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
Admission to all exhibitions and public programs is free and open to the public. Free admission to the Hammer Museum is made possible through the generosity of Erika J Glazer and Brenda R. Potter.

For additional information, visit the website @
hammer.ucla.edu

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HAUSER AND WIRTH GALLERY
2022-12-14 02:00 - 10:00 | Hauser & Wirth, 901 East 3rd Street, Los Angeles, CA, 90013, United States
FREE TUESDAY TO SUNDAY – Los Angeles
Occupying a former flour mill, Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles presents art exhibitions, events, and learning activities that connect with the local community in a vibrant architectural space.
ON VIEW THIS SUMMER
‘Paul McCarthy. A&E Drawings’
A&E Drawing Session 2021
With Lilith Stangenberg’
is open until Sun 17 July 2022.
‘Mika Rottenberg’ is open until Sun 2 Oct 2022.
Exhibitions are free to attend. No advance booking is necessary.
Our gallery and garden will be open six days a week.
GALLERY: TUESDAY TO SUNDAY, 10:00 am TO 6:00 pm
VISITOR GUIDE

Do not touch or climb on the artwork.
Children under 12 should be accompanied by an adult at all times.
Dogs on leashes are welcome on site. Dogs are not permitted inside the galleries unless they are service dogs. Please proceed to the Front Desk in South Gallery or the Information Desk in the Courtyard to check in your service dog.

901 East 3rd Street, Los Angeles CA, 90013

Hauser & Wirth was founded in 1992 in Zurich by Iwan Wirth, Manuela Wirth, and Ursula Hauser, who was joined in 2000 by Partner and President Marc Payot and CEO Ewan Venters in 2020. A family business with a global outlook, Hauser & Wirth has expanded over the past 30 years to include outposts in Hong Kong, London, New York, Southampton, Los Angeles, Somerset, Menorca, Monaco, Zurich, Gstaad, and St. Moritz. The gallery represents over 90 artists and estates who have been instrumental in shaping its identity, and who are the inspiration for Hauser & Wirth’s diverse range of activities that engage with art, education, conservation, and sustainability.
MANUELA RESTAURANT

Situated at the center of Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles, Manuela unites chefs, farmers, and artists to create an authentic and original dining experience. Under the direction of Executive Chef Kris Tominaga, the menu celebrates seasonal ingredients sourced from the best farms and producers in Southern California.
Named for Manuela Wirth, the restaurant is illuminated and animated by specially commissioned works from artists Paul McCarthy, Mark Bradford, and Raymond Pettibon.
The restaurant is available for private hire, as is the Private Dining Room, an intimate space that hosts up to 12 guests.
Tuesday – Friday 11.30 am – 2.30 pm, 5.30 – 10 pm
Sunday-Saturday 10 am – 2.30 pm, 5.30 – 9 pm
GARDEN

The garden, a certified Wildlife Habitat recognized by the National Wildlife Federation, is an oasis within the burgeoning Downtown Los Angeles Arts District. Featuring a chicken coop and beds of herbs and vegetables, which support the onsite restaurant, Manuela – this space aims to integrate community with urban food production and sustainability. The serene and contemplative environment is surrounded by an abundance of street art murals, which have been kept in their original locations, creating a juxtaposition of the site’s local history with its new life. The open-air courtyard and garden won the 2019 Landscape Architecture category of the 49th Los Angeles Architectural Awards.
SHOPS

ARTBOOK
ARTBOOK @ Hauser & Wirth Bookstore is a contemporary art and culture bookstore that highlights topical issues throughout the year by presenting a rotating thematic inventory of titles. ARTBOOK carries an extensive selection of magazines on a wide variety of subjects, as well as a large selection of children’s books, critical texts, and performance titles. The bookstore also features a comprehensive collection of Hauser & Wirth artists’ titles and exhibition catalogs.
GALLERY SHOP
The Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles Gallery Shop offers a selection of Hauser & Wirth Publishers titles from the gallery’s quarter-century history of exhibitions, unique Hauser & Wirth artist collaborations, and products from non-profit organizations such as Piece by Piece, MADE by DWC, and Rio Terà dei Pensieri.

For additional information, visit the website @
https://www.hauserwirth.com

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THE GETTY VILLA
2022-12-14 10:00 - 17:30 | The Getty Villa, 17985 Pacific Coast Highway, Pacific Palisades, CA, 90272, United States
FREE EVERYDAY- off PCH in Malibu

The Getty Villa houses the J. Paul Getty Museum’s collection.This collection antiquities includes over 1,200 works are on view in 23 galleries devoted to the permanent collection along with five additional galleries for changing exhibitions. There are objects dating from 6,500 B.C. to A.D. 400.
The Getty Villa offers an incomparable setting for the study and enjoyment of the arts. The Villa weaves together art, performances, family activities, lectures, theater, scholarship, conservation. There are other activities to create an integrated educational and cultural experience for all ages. The museum serves as a gateway to the classical past for students, scholars, specialized professionals, and general audiences.

The Getty Villa’s Architecture

Explore the groundbreaking architecture of the Getty Center in this 45 minute docent-led tour of the site.

Gardens are integral to the setting of the Getty Villa, as they were in the ancient Roman home. Open spaces around the site feature bronze sculptures, fountains, and lush plantings of trees, herbs, and flowers used by the Romans. In ancient Roman times, the outer peristyle garden would have been used to converse with guests and for solo contemplation.

The Getty Villa is Closed Mondays
Admission to the Getty Villa is free for the whole family. Each Villa ticket allows you to bring up to three children ages 15 and under with you in one car. The Getty Villa offers special educational programs for children. A special Family Forum gallery offers activities, including decorating Greek vases and projecting shadows onto a screen that represents a Greek urn. The gallery has polystyrene props from Greek and Roman culture for children to handle and use to cast shadows. The Getty Villa offers children’s guides to the other exhibits.
Family Room

Admission to the Getty is free for the whole family. Each Villa ticket allows you to bring up to three children ages 15 and under with you in one car.

Hours
The Getty Villa is closed on Tuesdays.
Wednesday – Monday: 10:00 a.m.-5:30 p.m.

For additional information, visit the website @
http://www.getty.edu

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Noah’s Ark at the Skirball
2022-12-15 08:00 - 17:00 | The Skirball Cultural Center, 2701 N. Sepulveda Blvd., Los Angeles, CA, 90049, United States
FREE FOR ALL EVERY THURSDAY- Skirball Cultural Center

Noah’s Ark at the Skirball has returned! This award-winning children’s and family destination invites visitors of all generations to play, climb, build, explore, make believe, and make friends—all while exploring an eight-thousand-square-foot wooden ark, filled to the rafters with whimsical animals and new storm clouds that will spark your senses. Share in a timeless story—and together envision a better world.

Imagine yourself immersed in a favorite childhood tale, which has parallels in cultures all over the world. Conduct a storm, help construct the Ark, and bask in the glow of a beautiful rainbow. Mingle with hundreds of fancifully handcrafted animals—from cuddly companions to life-sized puppets—all crafted from recycled materials and everyday objects, including baseball mitts, mop heads, and rearview mirrors.

After your hour aboard the Ark, experience surprise interactions and drop-in activities outdoors. Meet a puppet or two, hear a story in the amphitheater, explore outdoor pathways, or create a take-home art project.

“Extraordinary … A celebration of play, inspiring fascination, reviving wonder.”—The New York Times

Bring the magic of Noah’s Ark home with you!
Watch award-winning videos and download lesson plans that engage young learners in storytelling and mindfulness activities inspired by the messages of Noah’s Ark at the Skirball.

Hours
Thursday: 12:00pm – 5:00pm

For additional information, visit the website @
https://www.skirball.org/noahs-ark

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The Broad Museum
2022-12-15 11:00 - 17:00 | The Broad, 221 South Grand Ave, Los Angeles, CA, 90012, United States
