Founded in 1965, the Museum is located on a 20-acre campus in the heart of Los Angeles. More than 120,000 objects dating from antiquity to the present are housed in five major buildings. LACMA is the largest and most comprehensive art museum in the western United States.
Strengths include Japanese art, modern and contemporary art, Latin American works from pre-Colombian to present, a significant collection of Islamic art, and a naturally lit, open-plan museum space with a rotating selection of major exhibitions.
The grounds also include a 600-seat theatre for public programs.
Please check the museum website for updated exhibition information. Scheduling may have been modified as a result of the temporary museum closure.
130+ works of art and documents explore the transatlantic slave trade
Spiritual abstraction with symbols and imagery drawn from the collective unconscious
14 case studies place historical works in dialogue with contemporary examples
Traces the dynamism of materials and ideas throughout the region
Showcases an expansive range of practices constituting abstract art today
Examines direct and indirect points of exchange
14 case studies place historical works in dialogue with contemporary examples
Explores how the rise of computer technology impacted the making of art
Southern California artists' works that investigate perceptual phenomena
75 works by women artists born or living in Islamic societies
60 works explore aspects of Japanese aesthetics
Natural features of stones with comparative examples in other media
200 objects by artists, war photographers, and filmmakers as well as soldiers from several continents
300+ objects create a fictive 17th-century Dutch collector’s cabinet