This list of museums in Los Angeles is a list of museums located within the City of Los Angeles, defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing. Also included are non-profit and university art galleries. Museums that exist only in cyberspace (i.e.,
virtual museum
A virtual museum is a digital entity that draws on the characteristics of a museum, in order to complement, enhance, or augment the museum experience through personalization, interactivity, and richness of content. Virtual museums can perform as t ...
s) are not included.
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Museums
Defunct museums
* Animal Museum, closed May 2017
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ARCO Center for Visual Art, closed in 1984
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Children's Museum of Los Angeles
The Children's Museum of Los Angeles opened to the public on June 11, 1979, and operated for 21 years. It was located at the Los Angeles Mall in the Los Angeles Civic Center. It specifically catered to children, with the purpose of educating, ent ...
, closed in 2000
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Hollywood Erotic Museum, closed in 2006
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Marciano Art Foundation
The Marciano Art Foundation (formally named the Maurice and Paul Marciano Art Foundation) was a non-profit arts foundation located on Wilshire Boulevard in the Mid-Wilshire neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. It was established by the co-fo ...
, closed November 2019
* Sports Museum of Los Angeles, closed in 2016
* VIVA Art Center – Valley Institute of Visual Art, Sherman Oaks, closed in 2011
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Wells Fargo History Museum
The Wells Fargo History Museum is a museum operated by Wells Fargo in its corporate headquarters in San Francisco, California that features exhibits about the History of Wells Fargo. It includes original stagecoaches, photographs, gold nuggets a ...
(Los Angeles), closed in 2020
References
External links
Museums in the USA: CaliforniaCalifornia Association of MuseumsLA Tourist: Museums
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A museum ( ; plural museums or, rarely, musea) is a building or institution that cares for and displays a collection of artifacts and other objects of artistic, cultural, historical, or scientific importance. Many public museums make these ...
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Lists of museums in the United States by city
Lists of museums in California