{"id":26309,"date":"2021-05-15T09:59:08","date_gmt":"2021-05-15T16:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lainfused.com\/?p=26309"},"modified":"2021-05-15T10:02:55","modified_gmt":"2021-05-15T17:02:55","slug":"if-you-love-art-you-have-to-visit-los-angeles-county-museum-of-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lainfused.com\/if-you-love-art-you-have-to-visit-los-angeles-county-museum-of-art\/","title":{"rendered":"If you love art, you have to visit Los Angeles County Museum of Art"},"content":{"rendered":"
Located next to the La Brea Tar Pits<\/a><\/strong>, The Los Angeles County Museum of Art or LACMA <\/a> is the largest museum in the west of the United States<\/strong>. It houses over 150,000 works representing the history of art right through to the present day<\/strong> with a wide range of exhibits that include Egyptian, Greek and Roman archaeological artefacts, European paintings, an extensive collection of Latin American art and much more.<\/p>\n LACMA was born as part of the Los Angeles Museum of History, Science and Art, but in 1965 the museum moved and became an independent museum. The museum’s collections grew during the 1980s thanks to private donations.<\/p>\n With seven buildings and many galleries displaying over 100,000 objects from all around the world, the Museum offers the unforgettable experience to its visitors!<\/strong><\/p>\n The Museum’s incredible and diverse collections include pieces of Korean, African and Egyptian art, as well as Greek ceramics, European paintings, modern art, European sculptures and much more.<\/p>\n The most popular collections include Japanese Art with Japanese pieces dating from 3,000 BC to the 21st century, among which you can see Buddhist and Shinto sculptures, ceramic pieces, Edo paintings, armor and much more; Islamic Art with collections of contemporary Middle Eastern art; Colonial Art with Spanish colonial art; Wallis Annenberg Photography Department with more than fifteen thousand works that span the period from the medium’s invention in 1839 to the present.<\/p>\n