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Go Get Some Culture, Yo! 18 Area Museums Offering Free Admission For All This Weekend
Photo from inside The Autry by CindiK. via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr
If your New Year's resolutions happened to include "go to more museums," then this weekend your minimal budget is no excuse. It's a "Museums Free-For-All" weekend, sponsored by the Museum Marketing Roundtable, and 18 area venues will be free of charge Saturday and/or Sunday.
MuseumsLA has the list of participating venues:
*Regular parking fees apply. General museum admission only. May not apply to ticketed exhibitions.
- The Annenberg Space for Photography - Both Days
- The Autry National Center - Both Days
- California African American Museum - Both Days
- California Science Center - Both Days
- Chinese American Museum of Los Angeles - Both Days
- Fowler Museum at UCLA - Both Days
- The Hammer Museum - Both Days
- The Getty Center - Both Days
- The Getty Villa**- Both Days
- Laguna Art Museum - Both Days
- Los Angeles Fire Department Museum and Memorial (Both Hollywood & San Pedro Locations)- Saturday, January 28th Only
- The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA) - Saturday, January 28th Only
- Museum of Tolerance - Sunday, January 29th Only
- Museum of Latin American Art - Both Days
- Pasadena Museum of California Art - Both Days
- Santa Monica Museum of Art- Saturday, January 28th Only
- Skirball Cultural Center*** - Saturday, January 28th Only
- Zimmer Children's Museum - Sunday, January 29th Only
**Timed tickets are required; get them online
***Timed entry to the Noah’s Ark exhibition will be on a walk-up, first-come, first-serve basis on this date.
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