Things to do in Los Angeles: Museum Row

Описание: MUSEUM ROW

In Los Angeles there is no lack of variety in the city’s museum scene. So there’s sure to be something for just about everybody to see. Especially along a stretch of Wilshire Blvd. between Fairfax Ave. and La Brea Ave. known as the Miracle Mile area of the city where five major museums can be found.

The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the La Brea Tar Pits , the Craft Contemporary Museum, the Petersen Auto Museum and the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, provide amazing number of things to do and see all within a few blocks known as Museum Row.

The heart of Museum Row is The Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Established in 1961, The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, or LACMA, is the largest art museum in the western United States. It attracts nearly a million visitors each year. It hold over 150,000 work of art spanning history from ancient societies to modern art and experimental exhibitions.

The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, has a vast collection of art representing the many different cultures in the Los Angeles area including American, European and Islamic art works, along with Asian, Latin American and Contemporary art pieces.

The museum is comprised of several smaller museums housed in different buildings with each filled with galleries of paintings, sculptures and unique experimental art forms from all over the world from different time periods and in a variety of mediums.

Los Angeles is most certainly a center of car culture which all started with the hotrod. Sports cars, custom cars, low riders and street rods, all began back in 1947 with a local boy fascinated with the Hot Rod scene. He started a publication to popularizes car culture called Hot Rod magazine. His name was Robert Petersen.

Robert Peterson followed the Automotive scene all through the late 1940s and 1950s. In 1960s he created another magazine titled Motor Trend. On the corner of Fairfax and Wilshire blvd you’ll find The Petersen Automotive Museum home to an amazing collection of automobile related history. Which is just across the street from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. If you’re into cars this is your Meca.

Just a block east of the Petersen Museum on Wilshire Blvd is another amazing museum, the La Brea Tar Pits and the George Paige Museum. Mammoths, saber tooth cats and dire wolves are the stars of the La Brea Tar Pits and museum located on 23 acres in Hancock Park, part of the urban Miracle Mile district of Los Angeles.

Life-size sculptures of extinct animals situated around the park gives visitors a sense of the environment tens of thousands of years ago. Including a family of full size mastodons trapped in the tar to dramatize the prehistoric fate of many who came too near.

The La Area Tar Pits is where the remain of many Ice Age flower and fauna where trapped in the seeping tar and preserved. Excavating those remains to study and for the public to see what once was. It is a unique place in the world where a massive amount of Ice Age animals remains are easily found in the heart of Los Angeles.

Directly across the street from the La Brea Tar Pits is the Craft Contemporary. Known for many years as the Craft and Folk Art Museum, the Craft Contemporary is a non-profit, non-collection arts museum dedicated to showcasing contemporary craft in Los Angeles.

The Craft Contemporary Museum hosts changing displays of vibrant exhibits and family programs, film screenings, hands on workshops and professional artist talks. The museum is dedicated to domestic and international folk art and contemporary crafts and the works from up and coming artist.

The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures recently opened the largest museum in North America devoted to the movies and the art of filmmaking. A trip to Los Angeles wouldn’t be complete without visiting a museum dictated to the entertainment industry.

Located in the beautiful vintage 1939 Streamline Moderne building at the corner of Wilshire and Fairfax, this is where the Academy Museum houses its permanent exhibition. Visitors are able to trace the history of the film industry through props and memorabilia dating back more than 100 years.

Featuring some impressive exhibits the museum’s collection includes early motion picture cameras and projectors, animation devices, painted backdrops, production cells, models, original posters, props, and costumes.

The new Academy Museum of Motion Pictures has exhibits that are fun and informative, giving people a sense of the labor and imagination that goes into filmmaking. If you love movie this museum deserves a visit.

In this massive city where you need a car to travel to visit any place of interest this cluster of culture is a three block Miracle you can travel on foot. Museum Row has so much to see and do that you can spend several days with the family exploring this impressive array of first class museums in the heart of Los Angeles.