Cheap & Cheerful Culture -Free Admission to Museums

Get everybody off the couch and learn something! Here are a list of museums in Los Angeles that are ALWAYS free as well as free days or evenings for other area museums. With a little planning, the money you save on tickets, can buy a nice lunch!


ALWAYS FREE
California African American Museum - Exposition Park
UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History
Hollywood Bowl Museum
The Los Angeles Fire Department Museum Hollywood (sat 10-4pm)
MOCA -Pacific Design Center - West Hollywood
The Getty Center/ Getty Villa (but parking reservations required)


FREE on the 1st Tuesday of the month

George C. Page Museum- LA Brea Tar Pits
Natural History Museum - Exposition Park


FREE on the 2nd Tuesday of the month

Los Angeles County Museum of Art(LACMA) - Miracle Mile
Autry National Center, Museum of the American West - Griffith Park


FREE on the 3rd Tuesday of the month

Los Angeles County Arboretum and Botanical Garden



FREE on the 1st Wednesday of the month

Craft and Folk Museum - Miracle Mile


FREE every Thursday

Museum of Contemporary Art - 5pm-8pm Downtown
MOCA Geffen Contemporary - 5pm - 8pm - Downtown
Skirball Cultural Center - NOON - 5pm -West LA
UCLA Hammer Museum -West Los Angeles
Japanese American National Museum, 5pm-8pm every Thursday,
3rd Thursday, all day Downtown

FREE on the 1st Thursday of the Month

Huntington Library, Collections and Gardens ( free advanced ticktes required, available the 1st of the preceding month. (eample: August 1st for Sept 6)


FREE Every Friday

Long Beach Museum of Art


FREE on the 1st Friday of the Month

Norton Simon Museum of Art - Pasadena


FREE on the 4th Friday of the Month

Pacific Asia Museum - Pasadena


And for a suggested $5.00 donation, we also recommend the Santa Monica
Museum of Art.