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Los Angeles County Museum of Art MUSEUM
(LACMA; MAP GOOGLE MAP ; 323-857-6000; www.lacma.org ; 5905 Wilshire Blvd; adult/child
$15/free; 11am-5pm Mon, Tue & Thu, to 9pm Fri, 10am-7pm Sat & Sun; )
LA's premier art museum, LACMA's galleries are stuffed with all the major players -
Rembrandt, Cézanne, Magritte, Mary Cassat, Ansel Adams, to name a few - plus several
millennia worth of ceramics from China, woodblock prints from Japan, pre-Columbian art,
and ancient sculpture from Greece, Rome and Egypt.
Page Museum & La Brea Tar Pits MUSEUM
( MAP GOOGLE MAP ; www.tarpits.org ; 5801 Wilshire Blvd; adult/child/student & senior $7/2/4.50;
9:30am-5pm; )
Mammoths and saber-toothed cats used to roam LA's savanna in prehistoric times. We
know this because of an archaeological trove of skulls and bones unearthed at La Brea Tar
Pits.
Petersen Automotive Museum MUSEUM
( MAP GOOGLE MAP ; www.petersen.org ; 6060 Wilshire Blvd; adult/seniors & students/child $15/
10/5; 10am-6pm Tue-Sun; )
A four-story ode to the auto, the Petersen Automotive Museum reveals LA as the birth-
place of gas stations, billboards, strip malls, drive-in restaurants and drive-in movie theat-
ers. Glimpse hot rods, movie cars, and celebrity-owned rarities, presented in rotating ex-
hibits.
Ace Gallery GALLERY
( MAP GOOGLE MAP ; www.acegallery.net ; 5514 Wilshire Blvd; 10am-6pm Tue-Sat)
An amazing gallery sprawls the entire 2nd floor of the Desmond building (c 1927). The art
is all modern-edged works from the likes of Bernar Venet, Gary Lang, Gisele Colon and
Peter Alexander.
Sunset Strip STREET
( MAP GOOGLE MAP ; Sunset Blvd)