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Los Angeles County Museum of Art

FINDING ART ON THE MIRACLE MILE

 

Who would have thought a museum located next to a prehistoric tar-filled swamp would become a premier destination for the arts? Centered halfway between the Pacific Ocean and downtown Los Angeles, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art contains more than 150,000 works spanning the history of art from ancient civilizations to contemporary societies. Founded in 1910 as the Los Angeles Museum of History, Science and Art, the institution that began with no permanent collection quickly made up for lost time by snapping up works of art, and in 1965, ...

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