When brothers Charles and Henry Greene moved to Pasadena from Cincinnati in 1893, the Arts & Crafts movement had yet to take hold in California. By the time they built this...

Los Angeles's acropolis occupies the top of a hill on land once destined to be the site of a co-operative housing development. The complex was conceived as a home for the...

In 1974, oil magnate J Paul Getty opened a museum of his holdings in a faux villa in Malibu, based on the remains of the Villa dei Papiri in Herculaneum. Derision from critics...

The bequest of entrepreneur Henry E Huntington is now one of the most enjoyable attractions in the Los Angeles region. It's also not a destination that you should attempt to...

The story of Japanese immigration to the US really begins in 1882, when bosses were barred from importing cheap Chinese labour by the Chinese Exclusion Act. Thousands of...

While LACMA's collections have long been the most impressive in the city, the 20-acre complex of buildings in which they've been housed has been quite the reverse. A...

Founded in 1993 by the Simon Wiesenthal Center, a Jewish organisation named after the famous Nazi-hunter and devoted to combating anti-semitism and other forms of prejudice,...

Housed in a handsome Spanish-Renaissance building that opened with Exposition Park itself back in 1913, and containing an amazing 33 million exhibits (not all of them are on...

The Norton Simon's Gehry-helmed makeover in the late 1990s raised the museum's profile. But it also helped it expand the range of its collection, giving it more space and...

Industrialist Armand Hammer founded this museum, primarily to house his own collection. Now, under the ownership of UCLA, the Hammer stages fascinating themed shows of modern...