New this year! Join your fellow Convening attendees and experience one (or two!) of the renowned cultural institutions along Los Angeles’ Museum Row: the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, LA County Museum of Art, La Brea Tar Pits & Museum, and the Petersen Automotive Museum. Hosted by the Levitt Foundation, these museum experiences are self-guided, allowing you to explore up to two museums at your leisure. See below for descriptions.

When registering for the Convening, you can select up to two museums to experience on Thursday afternoon. Shuttles will be provided to take you from the Omni Hotel to Museum Row and back. Information about your museum tickets will be provided at a later date. For questions, please contact convening@levitt.org.   

 

Academy Museum of Motion Pictures | La Brea Tar Pits & Museum | Los Angeles County Museum of Art | Petersen Automotive Museum 

 

 

Academy Museum of Motion Pictures 

The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures is the largest museum in the world devoted to the arts, sciences, and artists of moviemaking. The exhibits at the museum are immersive and dynamic and tell the many stories of the movies—including art, technology, artists, history, and social impact—through a variety of diverse and engaging voices. Current exhibitions include: Color in Motion: Chromatic Explorations of Cinema, which explores the scientific and technological advancements that made color possible, to its emotional and psychological impact on viewers, to the ways filmmakers use color as a storytelling tool; Cyberpunk: Envisioning Possible Futures Through Cinema, which examines the global impact and lasting influence of the science fiction subgenre cyberpunk on cinema culture; and Hollywoodland: Jewish Founders and the Making of a Movie Capital, presented in English and Spanish, tells the origin story of filmmaking in early 20th-century Los Angeles, spotlighting the impact of the predominantly Jewish filmmakers whose establishment of the American film studio system transformed Los Angeles into a global epicenter of cinema. 

Average visit time: 2 hours

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La Brea Tar Pits & Museum

La Brea Tar Pits & Museum is one of the world’s most powerful gateways to the Ice Age. Boasting a whopping 50,000 years of LA basin history, and featuring a collection of over 3.5 million fossils, the Tar Pits stand as a vibrant testament to the diversity and inclusivity that define Los Angeles. Mark Dion’s immersive, uncanny installation, Excavations, evokes a behind-the-scenes museum space, displaying new work alongside early museum murals, dioramas, and maquettes of Ice Age mammals in a playful, irreverent presentation in keeping with his meticulous yet mischievous approach. Excavations is part of this year’s PST ART: Art & Science Collide initiative, a landmark Southern California event that happens once every five years. 

Average visit time: 45 minutes

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Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) 

The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) is the largest art museum in the western United States, with a collection of more than 150,000 objects that illuminate 6,000 years of artistic expression across the globe. Committed to showcasing a multitude of art histories, LACMA exhibits and interprets works of art from new and unexpected points of view that are informed by the region’s rich cultural heritage and diverse population. Josiah McElheny’s dramatic Island Universe, installed in the center of the Resnick Pavilion, embodies the concept of the multiverse, or multiple coexisting universes. McElheny, who is interested in how scientific inquiry is conditioned by and impacts philosophical, sociological, and political thought, finds a clear connection to the historical shifts that call for the decentering of Western knowledge, and even human-centric thought. Other exhibitions on view will include We Live in Painting: The Nature of Color in Mesoamerican Art, Mapping the Infinite: Cosmologies Across Cultures, Imagining Black Diasporas: 21st-Century Art and Poetics, and Digital Witness: Revolutions in Design, Photography, and Film, along with LACMA’s notable permanent collection and exhibits. 

Average visit time: 1 – 2 hours

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Petersen Automotive Museum 

The Petersen Automotive Museum is renowned for its extensive collection of vehicles throughout history. The museum’s exhibits cover a wide spectrum of automotive development, including the evolution of car design, the impact of cars on culture, and the innovations that have shaped the automotive industry. In addition to its permanent collection, the special exhibit Best in Low, turns a lens on the creation of the lowrider car itself, as well as on the street and the show—spaces where the craft of lowriding is on full display. As the popularity of lowrider culture has grown in the United States and abroad, the skills involved in creating a lowrider vehicle have similarly advanced, with builders, painters, and metalworkers reaching new levels of artistry and craftsmanship. 

Average visit time: 1 – 2 hours

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Photos courtesy of the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures (Pictured above: Color in Motion: Chromatic Explorations of Cinema, Academy Museum of Motion Pictures. Photo by: Josh White, JWPictures /©Academy Museum Foundation); La Brea Tar Pits & Museum; and the Petersen Automotive Museum.