Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)
Getty pulled his donations and built his own museum — so Los Angeles County built one bigger.
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Founded in 1961 after J. Paul Getty grew frustrated with the county's disorganized multipurpose museum and chose to stop donating, LACMA became the largest art museum in the western United States. It holds more than 150,000 works from ancient times to the present, and runs film and concert series alongside the galleries.
What to look for
- The Ardabil Carpet and Rembrandt's Portrait of Martin Looten — among the works Getty donated before walking away
- William Pereira's 1965 original complex, built in a style similar to Lincoln Center
- Museum Row's placement: the La Brea Tar Pits and George C. Page Museum sit directly next door
On Wilshire Boulevard in the Miracle Mile; film and concert series run alongside the permanent collection, so check the calendar before you go.
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More to see in Los Angeles
- Hollywood Walk of Fame2,850 names pressed into pink terrazzo underfoot — actors, inventors, fictional characters, all at six-foot intervals for 1.3 miles.
- Dolby TheatreThe red carpet runs up these stairs every awards season — where Hollywood officially crowns its year.
- SoFi StadiumA million-square-foot canopy embedded with 27,000 LED pucks bright enough to be seen from planes descending into LAX.
- Hollywood SignA 1923 real-estate billboard that refused to come down — and ended up owning the word "Hollywood" itself.
- U.S. Bank TowerLA sold the sky above a fire-gutted library to fund its own rebuilding — and got its second-tallest tower in the bargain.
- Rose BowlA century-old sunken oval where the 1994 World Cup Final was settled — and the 2028 Olympics will return to do it again.