The Museum of Contemporary Art is Los Angeles' only artist-founded museum, originally opened to the public in 1979.
The museum strives to showcase and collect art created since 1940, displaying items from a collection of more than 7,000 works by major contemporary artists such as Kim Dingle, George Segal, Sam Durant, Robert Motherwell, and Kenneth Price. Exhibits are housed within a classically-designed museum building along downtown Los Angeles' Grand Avenue, originally designed in 1986 by architect Arata Isozaki. Rotating curated exhibits revolve around themes such as postwar art, feminism, and youth creativity and have been acclaimed as some of the most influential and significant art exhibits in the United States.
The museum is open to the public for free each Thursday between the hours of 5:00pm and 8:00pm.
250 S Grand Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90012, Phone: 213-621-2766
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