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...

This small museum honours Duke Kahanamoku, the godfather of surfing, and celebrates surf music, surf life-saving and - of course - surf babes. Temporary exhibits come and go...

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...

Housed for two decades in a school gym, this popular interactive children's museum moved to a new site in 2004 after an $18-million funding drive. There's a wide variety of...

Though only true connoisseurs will reckon it worth the drive down in itself, the Long Beach Museum of Art nonetheless keeps its locals entertained with a cultured roster 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...

The largest maritime museum in the state contains a potted history of fishing in California, the story of San Pedro's canning industry, and an array of model boats and ships....

The city's premier showcase for post-war art, MoCA started life in a humongous bus barn on the edge of Little Tokyo. It's now the Geffen Contemporary, its spacious, raw...

The city's premier showcase for post-war art, MoCA started life in a humongous bus barn on the edge of Little Tokyo. It's now the Geffen Contemporary, its spacious, raw...

Dedicated to the history of aviation, this small museum closed in 2004 to move into new premises. The process has proven more time-consuming than the museum anticipated, but it...

Don't be fooled by the name: this is not some kind of Spielbergian dinosaurland. It's far more interesting than that. Hidden behind an unassuming, windowless storefront, David...

MoLAA might be located on land that once housed the Balboa Amusement Producing Company, the most productive silent film studio of its day, but history is conspicuous by its...

Recently relocated to the edge of Skid Row, the Museum of Neon Art mixes displays of fabulous vintage neon signs (soda-pop signs, restaurant displays and the like) with 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,...