Los Angeles Museums

The Museum of Tolerance is a high tech, hands-on experiential museum that focuses on two central themes through unique interactive exhibits: the dynamics of racism and prejudice in America and the history of the Holocaust - the ultimate example of man's inhumanity to man. The Museum, the educational arm of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, was founded to challenge visitors to confront bigotry and racism, and to understand the Holocaust in both historic and contemporary contexts.

Since its opening in 1993, it has hosted 3.5 million visitors from around the world, and nine heads of state including King Hussein of Jordan, three Prime Ministers of Israel and the Dalai Lama. The Museum receives 350,000 visitors annually including 110,000 children.

1200 Getty Center Dr, Los Angeles, CA

The California Science Center offers interactive exhibits that engage learners of all ages, showing how science relates to everyday life. Highlights include Tess, the 50-foot animatronic star of "BodyWorks," the High Wire Bicycle where guests pedal across a 1-inch cable 43 feet above the floor, and the Hypar, a sculpture that expands from 15 feet to 50 feet. The new IMAX Theater shows both 2D and 3D films on a movie screen 7-stories high.

700 State Dr, Los Angeles, CA

The Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles is home to one of the country's finest collections of American and European art created since 1940. MOCA currently holds approximately 5,000 objects in all visual media, ranging from masterpieces of abstract expressionism and pop art to recent works by young and emerging artists. Selections from the permanent collection are on view in MOCA's galleries throughout the year.

250 S Grand Ave, Los Angeles, CA

The Museum of Jurassic Technology is a small nondescript storefront on Los Angeles's Venice Boulevard. Inside, it is a museum like no other. Museum creator David Wilson, a man of prodigiously unusual imagination, has been mounting a series of unbelievable exhibits there for the last fifteen years. He has collected spore-inhaling ants, x-ray bats, human horns, peach-pit carvings, and novel theories of oblivion.

9341 Venice Boulevard, Culver City, CA

Founded in 1913, the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County is one of the largest natural and cultural museums in the Western United States. More than 35 million specimens and artifacts from over 4.5 billion years of the Earth's history are found in the Museum's collections.

900 Exposition Blvd, Los Angeles, CA

This museum offers three floors of fun and excitement for all ages. Bring the family to experience one hundred years of automotive history along side the history of Los Angeles in the "Streetscape." Wander past full-scale reproductions of scenes and buildings that mark important historical developments. The second floor has five changing galleries of Hollywood star's cars, cars that are stars, hot rods, Indy racecars, classics, customs, and automotive memorabilia. In the Discovery Center children can ride a real police motorcycle and learn about the Doppler Effect, sit on a giant engine and become a "human spark plug," and dress up for a ride in a Model T.

6060 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA

The Natural History Museum is the largest and most impressive of the museums located in Exposition Park. It is also the oldest; it opened back in 1913.

Housed in a single massive building, this stately museum and is the largest such archive on the west coast (and the fourth largest in the nation). It houses a vast collection of over 14 million items.

900 Exposition Boulevard, in Exposition Park, Los Angeles, CA

Travel Town was dedicated on December 14, 1952. The concept of a combined transportation museum and recreation center blossomed, and wishes for donations were generously fulfilled. In 1965, Travel Town's exhibits were re-grouped, and the park re-dedicated. Today, Travel Town is in a state of new growth and development.

5200 Zoo Drive, Los Angeles, CA