Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)
#72🖼️ Art & EncyclopedicLos Angeles, United States

Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)

The largest art museum in the western US

About the museum

Spread across a 20-acre Wilshire Boulevard campus undergoing Peter Zumthor's reimagined building, LACMA holds 150,000 objects from antiquity to the present.

Must-see highlights

  • Urban Light (Chris Burden)
  • Levitated Mass (Michael Heizer)
  • Japanese Pavilion
  • Pre-Columbian collection
  • Resnick Pavilion

Recognition

🏆 TripAdvisor Travelers' Choice

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