# Best museums in Los Angeles

Hilltop art, Hollywood history and a space shuttle: the Los Angeles museums visitors rate highest.

- 106 votes · 12 items
- Sep 3, 2024 · roamer_detroit
- https://even.best/en/l/1429/best-museums-in-los-angeles

## Top 10

1. **The Getty Center** (18 · ▲19 ▼1) — Richard Meier's hilltop campus with art, gardens and city views.
2. **Griffith Observatory** (17 · ▲17 ▼0) — Free observatory with views of the Hollywood Sign.
3. **The Broad** (13 · ▲14 ▼1) — Free contemporary art museum with Kusama's Infinity Mirror Room.
4. **LACMA** (12 · ▲12 ▼0) — The largest art museum in the western US, with 'Urban Light'.
5. **Petersen Automotive Museum** (5 · ▲5 ▼0) — Car museum behind a red-and-steel ribbon façade.
6. **The Huntington** (4 · ▲6 ▼2) — Library, art collections and botanical gardens in San Marino.
7. **Academy Museum of Motion Pictures** (4 · ▲5 ▼1) — The film academy's museum with a spherical theatre by Renzo Piano.
8. **California Science Center** (4 · ▲5 ▼1) — Home of the Space Shuttle Endeavour.
9. **Getty Villa** (3 · ▲4 ▼1) — Ancient art in a recreated Roman villa in Pacific Palisades.
10. **Grammy Museum** (2 · ▲4 ▼2) — Music history at L.A. Live.
11. **La Brea Tar Pits** (2 · ▲3 ▼1) — Active Ice Age fossil site with a museum.
12. **Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Dinosaur Hall in Exposition Park.

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