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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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

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...

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...