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MUSEUMS & GALLERIES
See p. 157 for the
J. Paul Getty collection
at the G etty Center Los Angeles and the
Getty Villa Malibu.
L.A.'S WESTSIDE & BEVERLY HILLS
Hammer Museum
Created b y the former chairman and CEO of O ccidental
Petroleum, the H ammer Museum is ensconced in a two-stor y Carrara marble building
attached to the oil company 's offices. I t's better kno wn for its high-pr ofile and often
provocative visiting exhibits. With a reputation for championing contemporary political
and experimental art, the Hammer continues to present often daring and usually popular
special exhibits, and it's definitely worth calling ahead to find out what will be there dur-
ing your visit to L.A. The permanent collection (Armand Hammer's personal collection)
consists mostly of traditional w estern European and Anglo-American ar t, and contains
noteworthy paintings by Toulouse-Lautrec, Rembrandt, Degas, and van Gogh.
10899 Wilshire Blv d. (at Westwood Blv d.).
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310/443-7000.
w ww.hammer.ucla.edu. A dmission $7
adults, $5 seniors 65 and o ver, free for kids ages 17 and under ; free for everyone Thurs. Tues-Wed and
Fri-Sat 11am-7pm; Thurs 11am-9pm; Sun 11am-5pm. Closed Jan 1, July 4, Thanksgiving, and Dec 25.
Parking $3 for 1st 3 hr. with validation.
Museum of Tolerance
The Museum of Tolerance is designed to expose pr eju-
dices, bigotr y, and inhumanity while teaching racial and cultural tolerance. S ince its
opening in 1993, it has hosted 4 million visitors from around the world, including King
Hussein of Jordan and the Dalai Lama. It's located in the S imon Wiesenthal Center, an
institute founded b y the legendar y N azi hunter. While the H olocaust figur es pr omi-
nently here, this is not a J ewish museum—it's an academy that br oadly campaigns for a
live-and-let-live world. Tolerance is an abstract idea that's hard to display, so most of this
$50-million museum's exhibits are high-tech and conceptual in nature. Fast-paced inter-
active displays are designed to touch the hear t as well as the mind, and engage ev eryone
from heads of state to the MTV generation.
9786 W. Pico Blvd. (at Ro xbury Dr.).
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310/553-8403.
www.museumoftolerance.com. Admission $15
adults, $12 seniors 62 and abo ve, $11 students with ID and y outh 5-18, fr ee for children ages 4 and
under. Advance purchase recommended; photo ID r equired for admission. M on-Fri 10am-5pm; Sun
11am-5pm. Closed many Jewish and secular holidays; call for schedule. Free underground parking.
The Paley Center for Media
Want to see the B eatles on
The Ed Sullivan Show
(1964), or E dward R. M urrow's examination of J oseph M cCarthy (1954), or Arnold
Palmer's victory in the 1958 Masters Tournament; or want to listen to radio excerpts like
FDR's first “F ireside Chat” (1933) and O rson Welles's famous
War of the Worlds
UFO
hoax (1938)? All these, plus a gazillion episodes of
The Twilight Zone, I Lo ve Lucy,
and
other beloved series (including numer ous pilots never aired on national television), can
be viewed within the starkly white walls of architect Richard Meier's neutral, contempo-
rary building. O nce y ou gawk at the celebrity and industr y-honcho names adorning
every hall, r oom, and miscellaneous ar ea, it becomes quickly appar ent that “librar y”
would be a mor e fitting name for this collection, since the main attractions—120,000
television and radio pr ograms and commer cials—are requested via sophisticated com-
puter catalogs and viewed in private consoles. Although no one sets out to spend a vaca-
tion watching TV, it can be tempting once y ou start browsing the ar chives. This West
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