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5814 Wilshire Blvd. (btw. Fairfax and La Br ea aves.), Miracle Mile. & 323/937-4230. www.cafam.org.
Admission $5 adults , $3 seniors and students , free for children 11 and under ; free to all 1st Wed each
month. Tues-Wed and Fri 11am-5pm; Thurs 11am-7pm; Sat-Sun noon-6pm. Metered street parking or
in nearby public lots.
The Hollywood Museum The historic Max Factor Building—Max Factor was the
patriarch of the H ollywood makeup industr y—has finally been r estored to its original
1935 Art Deco splendor and is now the home of the Hollywood Museum, which features
four floors of famous and rare props (including Hannibal Lecter's cell), costumes (Nicole
Kidman's from Moulin Rouge ), scripts, cameras, awar ds, and numer ous vintage photos
and posters from the television, stage, and recording industries. Exhibits are arranged for
the visitor to experience H ollywood chronologically—from the S ilent Era and G olden
Era to current production technology and a glimpse into the future of the industry. The
museum, located across from the Hollywood & Highland entertainment complex, also
houses a library, a screening room, an education center, and a museum-studio gift shop.
Private guided tours are available upon request.
1660 N. Highland Ave. (at Hollywood Blvd.), Hollywood. & 323/464-7776. www.thehollywoodmuseum.
com. Admission and tour $15 adults, $12 seniors and students , and $5 f or children under 5. Thurs-Sun
10am-5pm. Parking $2 off with validation.
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Los Angeles County Museum of A rt (LACMA) For mor e than 50 y ears
LACMA has been one of the finest art museums in the nation, housing a 110,000-piece
collection that includes wor ks by Degas, Rembrandt, Hockney, and M onet. The huge
20-acre complex—it 's the largest visual ar ts museum w est of Chicago—has been
expanded ev en mor e with the r ecent opening of the $56-million, thr ee-story Broad
Contemporary Art Museum (also kno wn as BCAM). Boasting 60,000 squar e feet of
exhibition space, it 's the first ne w ar t museum built in L.A. since the G etty Center
opened in 1997. O pening installations include wor ks by such contemporar y ar tists as
Richard Serra, Jeff Koons, Jasper Johns, Andy Warhol, and Roy Lichtenstein.
Other highlights include L ACMA's Pavilion for J apanese Ar t, which has exterior
walls made of Kalwall, a translucent material that, like shoji screens, permits the entry of
soft natural light. I nside is a collection of J apanese Edo paintings that 's rivaled only b y
the holdings of the emper or of Japan. The Ahmanson Building houses the majority of
the museum's permanent collections—ev erything fr om 2,000-y ear-old pr e-Columbian
Mexican ceramics to 19th-century portraiture, to a unique glass collection spanning the
centuries. Other displays include one of the nation 's largest holdings of costumes and
textiles, and an impor tant I ndian and S outheast Asian ar t collection. F ree 50-minute
guided tours of many of L ACMA's special exhibitions ar e offer ed w eekly—check the
museum's online calendar for times and locations.
5905 Wilshire Blvd. (bt w. Curson and F airfax aves.), M iracle M ile. & 323/857-6000. w ww.lacma.org.
Admission $12 adults, $8 students and seniors ages 62 and o ver, free for children 17 and under; regular
exhibitions free for everyone after 5pm and all da y the 2nd Tues of each month. M on-Tues and Thurs
noon-8pm; Fri noon-9pm; Sat-Sun 11am-8pm. Closed Thanksgiving and Dec 25. Parking $7.
Museum of the A merican West Located nor th of D owntown in G riffith
Park, this is one of the country's finest and most comprehensive museums of the Ameri-
can West. More than 78,000 ar tifacts showcasing the histor y of the r egion west of the
Mississippi Riv er ar e intelligently display ed. E vocative exhibits illustrate the ev eryday
lives of early pioneers, not only with antique fir earms, tools, saddles, and the like, but
with many hands-on displays that successfully stir the imagination and the hear t. You'll
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