You might expect this Griffith Park museum to be a kitschy exploration of the life and works of the famous singing cowboy. However, though there's often some sort of Autry...

Bigger than it looks from the outside, this handsome museum and research library focuses on the artistic and historical achievements of African Americans. The small but tidy...

This is an engaging, enthusiastically run operation, housed in an 1894 house and largely devoted to the decorative arts. The exhibits take the shape of rooms decorated in...

A fusion of two longstanding prior facilities, the California ScienCenter opened in 1998 in a bright, airy building directly in front of the Rose Garden in Exposition Park. The...

While CAM's address in El Pueblo might seem a little incongruous, its location is actually very appropriate. This was LA's original Chinatown, and the Garnier building, in...

Since being saved from oblivion by the city, which took it over in 1998 after financial troubles, LA's only public showcase devoted to functional and informal art has broadened...

Charles and Ray Eames' landmark experiment in home design, built in 1949, is still used as a private residence by the Eames family. However, interested visitors are welcome to...

Built at the turn of the century by adventurous jack-of-all-trades Charles Fletcher Lummis, this eye-catchingly strange but admirable building is now open for low-key tours at...

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...

This Victorian house, located on an unremarkable residential street just north-east of MacArthur Park, has been maintained to reflect its origins, and is thus stuffed almost to...

This fine little museum presents a lively account of the Hollywood Bowl's history, through archival film footage, audio clips, photography and all manner of other memorabilia....

Designed as the Hollywood Fire & Safe Building in 1914, this building was converted in 1928 into a beauty salon by Max Factor. A refurbishment by Factor seven years later...