February 2nd-3rd, 2019
SoCal Museums presents a weekend of opportunity! There is a good chance the list below consists of one or more museums that if provided a free ticket, you would be ready to go instantly! Well, this Saturday and/or Sunday is your chance!
“It’s a special weekend that invites Southern Californians and others to branch out and explore museums they may have never before visited, or to return to familiar spots,” says Jennifer Caballero, SoCal Museums President and Marketing Director at the Skirball Cultural Center.
Whether you find yourself an aspiring artist, a science explorer, or simply one who desires a day out of the house, you are bound to experience adventure while learning alongside your fellow SoCal residents. Please take note which day(s) your museum of choice is participating:
- Academy Museum of Motion Pictures (Opening late 2019; Free-for-All pop-up accessible via Los Angeles County Museum of Art)
- Autry Museum of the American West
- Columbia Memorial Space Center
- Descanso Gardens (Free tickets available at descansogardens.org/tickets.)
- Japanese American National Museum (Free tickets available at janm.org/freeforall.)
- Kidspace Children’s Museum
- La Brea Tar Pits and Museum (General admission only; free tickets available at tarpits.org/freeforall.)
- Los Angeles County Museum of Art
- Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden
- Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History and Sea Center (Museum admission only)
- Santa Barbara Museum of Art
- USC Fisher Museum of Art
- Wende Museum of the Cold War
- Bowers Museum
- Muckenthaler Cultural Center
- Museum of Latin American Art
- Museum of Tolerance
- Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County (General admission only; free tickets available at nhm.org/freeforall.)
- Palm Springs Art Museum
- Skirball Cultural Center (Noah’s Ark timed-entry, one-hour tickets are limited and distributed first-come, first-served.)
- The University Art Museum at California State University, Long Beach
- Valley Relics Museum
- Zimmer Children’s Museum by Sharewell
- Armory Center for the Arts
- Automobile Driving Museum
- The Broad (Free advance general admission tickets strongly recommended to avoid waiting in the standby line. Visit www.thebroad.org to make a reservation.)
- California African American Museum
- California Science Center (General admission only. A timed reservation with a convenience fee is required for Space Shuttle.)
- Craft Contemporary
- Forest Lawn Museum
- Fowler Museum at UCLA
- Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art
- The Getty Center
- The Getty Villa (Timed tickets are required for the Getty Villa. Visit www.getty.edu to make a reservation.)
- Hammer Museum
- Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
- Laguna Art Museum
- La Plaza de Cultura y Artes
- Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions
- Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust
- The Museum of Contemporary Art
- Orange County Museum of Art
- Pomona College Museum of Art
- Sunnylands Center & Gardens
- USC Pacific Asia Museum
This offer is for general museum admission only and does not apply to specially ticketed exhibitions. Regular parking fees apply at each museum. Consult individual museum websites for hours, directions, and other visitor information.
