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20 museums, concert halls, theaters, galleries and libraries across Downtown Los Angeles — the densest concentration of cultural institutions in the city.

Where they cluster. Bunker Hill holds 5, including Walt Disney Concert Hall, The Broad, MOCA Grand Avenue, The Music Center and The Colburn School — four of them within a few minutes’ walk of each other on Grand Avenue. The Historic Core holds 4, all of them Broadway theaters: the Orpheum, the Palace, the Los Angeles Theatre and The United Theater on Broadway. Chinatown holds 4, weighted toward independent and artist-run spaces such as Human Resources Los Angeles, Charlie James Gallery and the Institute for Art and Olfaction. Little Tokyo holds 2 — the Japanese American National Museum and the Japanese American Cultural & Community Center — with the Institute of Contemporary Art and Hauser & Wirth in the Arts District.

How to browse. If you have one afternoon, start on Grand Avenue in Bunker Hill and walk the block. If you want architecture rather than exhibitions, walk Broadway in the Historic Core. If you want galleries rather than museums, go to Chinatown or the Arts District. The Los Angeles Central Library sits between the two, in the Financial District, and is free.

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The Music Center

The performing-arts campus of Los Angeles County on Grand Avenue in Bunker Hill, home to the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, the
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Los Angeles Theatre

A lavish 1931 movie palace on South Broadway, among the last and most opulent built in the Broadway Theater District,
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Palace Theatre

Opened in 1911, the Palace is the oldest surviving Orpheum-circuit theatre in the country, built for vaudeville before becoming a
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Human Resources Los Angeles

A nonprofit art and performance space on Cottage Home Street in the Chinatown arts district, presenting experimental exhibitions, performances and
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Los Angeles County Law Library

The Los Angeles County Law Library, a public legal-research library on West 1st Street in the Civic Center, next to
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Institute for Art and Olfaction

A nonprofit gallery, laboratory and reference library dedicated to scent and the art of perfume, on the Chung King Road
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The Colburn School

The Colburn School, a performing-arts school on South Grand Avenue in Bunker Hill, across from Walt Disney Concert Hall and
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Orpheum Theatre

A restored 1926 Broadway movie palace on South Broadway in the Historic Core’s Broadway Theater District, now an active venue
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Charlie James Gallery

A contemporary art gallery on Chung King Road in Chinatown, showing rotating exhibitions across two adjacent spaces. Free to visit;
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Los Angeles Central Library

The Richard J. Riordan Central Library, the main branch of the Los Angeles Public Library, on West 5th Street in