Museums
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1 Museums of the World lacma 3
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2 artle
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3 Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art
Pepperdine University, Lisa Smith Wengler Center for the Arts, Malibu
4 The Broad
The Broad is a contemporary art museum in Los Angeles offering free general admission and an active program of rotating exhibitions.
5 Huntington
The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens features 150 acres of breathtaking gardens, three art galleries and a library of rare books and manuscripts. Highlights include a spectacular 12-acre desert garden.
6 Getty.edu/museum
With two locations, the Getty Villa in Malibu and the Getty Center in Los Angeles, the J. Paul Getty Museum serves a wide variety of audiences through its expanded range of exhibitions and programming in the visual arts.
7 LACMA
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, LACMA is the premier visual arts museum in the Western United States. Its holdings include more than 150,000 works spanning the history of art from ancient times to the present.
8 Welcome to the Norton Simon Museum
The Norton Simon Museum of Art holds one of the worlds finest and most prestigious collections. Search its collection online, featuring detailed information and color images of nearly 1,000 works of European, American and South Asian art.
9 Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History
The Museum features eleven exhibit halls, focusing on regional natural history, including birds, insects, mammals, marine life, paleontology, Native Americans and the Chumash Indians. The Lizard Lounge features live reptiles and amphibians.
10 Skirball
Changing exhibitions and a core exhibition Visions and Values: Jewish Life from Antiquity to America which traces the experiences and accomplishments of the Jewish people over four thousand years.
11 Museum of Television & Radio
A nonprofit museum founded by William S. Paley to collect and preserve television and radio programs and to make them available to the public.
12 Autry National Center
Autry National Center. The Southwest Museum of the American Indian, the Museum of the American West and the Institute for the Study of the American West
13 Carnegie Art Museum
Museum Hours: Thurs - Sat 10-5 & Sun 1 -5 suggested donation $3 424 South C Street Oxnard, CA 93030 805.385.8157
14 Laguna Art Museum
Laguna Art Museum represents the core California art scene. It places the aesthetics of the west coast within a national and international context and develops scholarship on the art history of California. 307 Cliff Drive Laguna Beach, CA 92651 (949) 494-8971 $10 Admission
15 Leonis Adobe Museum
Travel back in time to California in 1880. Leonis Adobe & Plummer House 23537 Calabasas Rd Calabasas, CA 91302 (818) 222-6511 Visiting Hours Wednesday - Sunday 1pm - 4pm
16 Hermitage Museum
The State Hermitage occupies six magnificent buildings situated along the embankment of the River Neva, right in the heart of St Petersburg.
17 Google Art Project
Art Project, powered by Google. Discover featured artworks at high resolution and use the custom viewer to zoom into paintings.
18 MetMuseum
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. The web site features information on upcoming museum events, fine art exhibits, special exhibitions and the Met collection online.
19 SFMoma
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. The only museum in the western United States devoted to collecting and exhibiting the full scope of modern and contemporary art.
20 PhilaMuseum
The Philadelphia Museum of Art is among the largest and most important art museums in the United States. The collection of Asian art, with objects dating from the third millenium B.C. to the present, includes ceramics, sculpture, paintings, and decorative objects as well as a Japanese ceremonial teahouse, a Chinese palace hall, and a celebrated collection of Oriental carpets. The European collections include medieval sculpture, stained glass, and a 13th-century French cloister; masterpieces of Renaissance painting; a suite of 18th-century French interiors; and superb Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings. The American collections include extensive holdings of Pennsylvania German art; refined furniture and silver by early Philadelphia craftsmen; and the most important collection in the world of works by Philadelphia artist Thomas Eakins. The art of the 20th century can be traced from the early innovations of Picasso, Braque, Matisse, and Duchamp to great works of abstract expressionism, pop art, color field painting, and contemporary work in many media.
21 Fitzwilliam Museum
The Fitzwilliam Museum houses world-class collections of works of art and antiquities spanning centuries and civilisations. The Museum is in Trumpington Street, Cambridge, within walking distance (approximately 500 metres) from the city centre.
22 Frick
A visit to The Frick Collection evokes the splendor and tranquillity of a time gone by and at the same time testifies to how great art collections can still inspire viewers today. Housed in the New York mansion built by Henry Clay Frick (1849-1919), are masterpieces of Western painting, sculpture, and decorative art, displayed in a serene and intimate setting. Each of sixteen galleries offers a unique presentation of works of art arranged for the most part without regard to period or national origin, in the same spirit as Mr. Frick enjoyed the art he loved before he bequeathed it to the public.
23 Nevada Museum of Art
Located in Reno, Nevada, the Nevada Museum of Art through innovative programming, exhibitions and scholarship, provides the opportunity for people of all ages to encounter, engage and enjoy a diversity of art experiences.
24 Moca-la
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles is home to one of the best collections of American and European art created since 1940. MOCA currently holds approximately 5,000 objects in all visual media, ranging from masterpieces of Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art to recent works by young and emerging artists. Free on Thursdays from 5-8 p.m.
25 Thomas Jewusiak
A directory of the world’s great museums.
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