by aadmin | Jun 12, 2026 | Blog
There are not many places where a kid can crane their neck up at an actual spacecraft that flew to orbit twenty-five times, and then walk a few steps to touch a tornado made of air, and then watch fish drift through a kelp forest tank two storeys tall. The California...
by aadmin | Jun 12, 2026 | Blog
Most people remember exactly one thing from their first visit to the Los Angeles Natural History Museum, and it is usually the dinosaurs. Three Tyrannosaurus rex specimens, arranged together as a growth series — a baby, a juvenile, a sub-adult — in a hall built to let...
by aadmin | Jun 12, 2026 | Blog
There are museums you visit and museums that visit you back. The Museum of Tolerance is the second kind. You walk in expecting a building full of exhibits and you leave carrying something heavier and more useful than information — a changed way of looking at how...
by aadmin | Jun 12, 2026 | Blog
You notice the building before you know what it is. A wall of swooping stainless-steel ribbons wrapped around a bright red box, sitting on the corner of Wilshire and Fairfax like something that landed rather than something that was built. The Petersen Automotive...
by aadmin | Jun 12, 2026 | Blog
There is a corner of Wilshire Boulevard where the ground bubbles. Not metaphorically — literally bubbles, slow black asphalt pushing up through the surface in the middle of a manicured park, releasing methane in lazy pops that smell faintly of a freshly paved road on...
by aadmin | May 19, 2026 | Blog
There’s a moment that happens at dusk on Wilshire Boulevard when the 202 cast-iron streetlamps on the museum plaza begin to assert themselves against the darkening sky. During the day, the LACMA lights feel historical — weathered columns with their own...
