A list of
museum
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s located within
Los Angeles County of
southern California
Southern California (commonly shortened to SoCal) is a geographic and cultural region that generally comprises the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. It includes the Los Angeles metropolitan area, the second most populous urban a ...
.
Museums located within the
City of Los Angeles
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, while also within LA County, are found separately listed on the
List of museums in Los Angeles, California.
The list includes museums and
art galleries
An art gallery is a room or a building in which visual art is displayed. In Western cultures from the mid-15th century, a gallery was any long, narrow covered passage along a wall, first used in the sense of a place for art in the 1590s. The lon ...
— of historical, cultural, ethnic, science, and
arts organizations,
nonprofit organization
A nonprofit organization (NPO) or non-profit organisation, also known as a non-business entity, not-for-profit organization, or nonprofit institution, is a legal entity organized and operated for a collective, public or social benefit, in co ...
s, government departments, university and college facilities, and private or corporate collections — that have galleries, buildings, and or open air spaces with exhibits and works open for public viewing.
It currently does not include
virtual museum
A virtual museum is a digital entity that draws on the characteristics of a museum, in order to complement, enhance, or augment the museum experience through personalization, interactivity, and richness of content. Virtual museums can perform as t ...
s, although some of the listed physical museums have notable online collections also.
Museums
Current
Former
*
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Galleries
* Downey Museum of Art,
Downey Downey may refer to:
People
* Downey (surname)
*Robert Downey Jr.
Places
* Downey, California, US
* Downey, Idaho, US
* Downey, Iowa, US
Businesses
* W. & D. Downey, photographic studio
* Downey Studios, created out of a former Boeing plant
Sch ...
website closed in 2009 and seeking new location
* Eames Office, Santa Monica
See also
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List of museums in the City of Los Angeles, California
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References
External links
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