The depth and wealth of the collection at the largest museum in the western US is stunning. LACMA holds all the major players – Rembrandt, Cézanne,…
Must see attractions in West Hollywood & Mid-City
- Top ChoiceLos Angeles County Museum of Art
- PTop ChoicePetersen Automotive Museum
A four-story ode to the auto, the Petersen Automotive Museum is a treat even for those who can’t tell a piston from a carburetor. A headlights-to-brake…
- OTop ChoiceOriginal Farmers Market
Long before the city was flooded with farmers markets, there was the farmers market. Fresh produce, roasted nuts, doughnuts, cheeses, blini – you’ll find…
- La Brea Tar Pits & Museum
Mammoths, saber-toothed cats and dire wolves roamed LA's savanna in prehistoric times. We know this because of an archaeological trove of skulls and bones…
- SSunset Strip
A visual cacophony of billboards, giant ad banners and neon signs, the sinuous stretch of Sunset Blvd running between Laurel Canyon and Doheny Dr has been…
- SSchindler House
The former home and studio of Vienna-born architect Rudolph Schindler (1887–1953) offers a fine primer on the modernist elements that so greatly…
- CCBS Television City
North of the Farmers Market is CBS, where game shows, talk shows, soap operas and other programs are taped, often before a live audience, including the…
- CCraft Contemporary
This well-respected, intimate, three-story museum features an eclectic mix of world-renowned and local up-and-coming artists in the folk and craft art…
- PPacific Design Center
Interior design is big in WeHo, with more than 120 trade-only showrooms at the Pacific Design Center and dozens more in the surrounding Avenues of Art &…
- MMOCA Pacific Design Center
Standing a bit forlorn amid the glassy behemoths is the small satellite branch of Downtown’s Museum of Contemporary Art. Exhibits usually have an…
- GGrove
Next door to the Original Farmers Market is a faux-European and rather corporate, yet attractive, shopping mall built around a central plaza with a…
- AAce Gallery
This amazing gallery sprawls an entire floor of the Desmond Building (c 1927). The art is all modern-edged, including minimalist canvases, strobing video…
- HHeritage Classics
Motorcar eye candy is yours at this showroom of rare and restored gems from newish Bentleys to classic Corvettes and Porsches, to old muscle cars and wood…
- WWall Project
Ten slabs of the old Berlin Wall, augmented by well known street artists, are on display on the lawn of a Wilshire high-rise across the street from LACMA…
- AAcademy Museum
The future home of the museum of the Oscars is scheduled to open in late 2019.