Here are 5 Museums Off the Beaten Path in Los Angeles.
Petersen Automotive Museum
In an effort to keep things fresh, this 300,000 square foot museum only displays about 150 vehicles out of it’s collection at any period of time. The other half of the 300+ collection is in onsite storage ready to go on exhibition. A large part of The Museum’s focus is to collect and preserve historic vehicles, and a great deal of importance was placed from day one on acquiring a great number of significant vehicles of all shapes, sizes, makes, models, and purposes.
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Western Museum of Flight
This museum is dedicated to preserving and displaying aircraft history and artifacts of Southern California’s aviation heritage. Educational programs are offered that allow children to see and touch the airplanes that made aviation history. The collection includes numerous Warbirds, aircraft and target drones, piston and jet aircraft engines, aircraft components, aircraft ejection seats, World War II instruments, aircrew accessories, and an extensive model aircraft collection.
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Museum of Jurassic Technology
This museum has a collection of a mixture of artistic, scientific, ethnographic, and historic, as well as some unclassifiable exhibits. The factual claims of many of the museum’s exhibits strain credibility, provoking an array of interpretations from commentators. In 1995 Lawrence Weschler wrote a book about the museum entitled Mr. Wilson’s Cabinet of Wonder: Pronged Ants, Horned Humans, Mice on Toast, And Other Marvels of Jurassic Technology, which describes in detail many of the museum’s exhibits.
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Museum of Neon Art
Now in it’s new location in Glenndale (20 minutes from Downtown Los Angeles), this museum exists to encourage learning and curiosity through the preservation, collection, and interpretation of neon art. The exhibits showcase and preserve old neon signs as well as display of original fine art and kinetic art. The collection includes neon signs from the Brown Derby and Grauman’s Chinese Theatre.
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California Heritage Museum
Located on Main Street in Santa Monica, this museum displays American decorative and fine arts, and promotes the passion that is collecting. It was officially named a Landmark in January of 1979. Check the museum’s website for a current exhibits that are on display.
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