Los Angeles Art Museums

I can't decide which is better here - the art or the architecture. West Los Angeles.

One of America's best museums for antiquities from Rome, Greece and Etruria, the Getty Villa is well worth the trouble it takes to make advance reservations to go there. Our guide tells you how to get there, how to get tickets and what you'll see.

The museum near UCLA presents selections from the Armand Hammer Collection, which features primarily Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings by such artists as Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, John Singer Sargent, Mary Cassatt, and Vincent van Gogh.

An extensive art museum with an especially good Oriental art collection, the LACMA routinely hosts interesting exhibitions. On Wilshire Blvd.in West Los Angeles.

Featuring artworks created in and after the 1940s.

Pasadena has no shortage of fine art museums. The Norton Simon's collection ranges from the 14th to 20th centuries and includes works by Raphael, El Greco, Rembrandt, Monet, Renoir, van Gogh, Picasso and many others.

In addition to a magnificent botanical garden, the Huntington's collection includes paintings and historical documents. Its most famous holding is Gainsborough's Blue Boy. In Pasadena.

This museum holds a significant collection of art related to the American West, cowboys and the like.