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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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Chinese American Museum

A museum of Chinese American history in the Garnier Building within the El Pueblo de Los Angeles Historical Monument, across
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GRAMMY Museum

A four-floor music museum at LA Live devoted to the GRAMMY Awards and the making of recorded music, with interactive
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Japanese American Cultural & Community Center

The cultural heart of Little Tokyo, home to the Aratani Theatre, a plaza and garden, a gallery and the MISE
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Walt Disney Concert Hall

The Frank Gehry-designed concert hall on Grand Avenue, home of the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the LA Master Chorale. Its
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The United Theater on Broadway

A restored 1920s movie palace on South Broadway, built for United Artists, now a live venue hosting concerts and shows.
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Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles

A gallery complex in a converted Arts District flour mill, showing contemporary exhibitions across several buildings around a planted courtyard.
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Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

A non-collecting contemporary art institution on East Seventh Street, east of the Arts District proper, in a converted industrial building.
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The Broad

A contemporary art museum on Grand Avenue built around the Broad collection, with general admission free at all times. Timed
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MOCA Grand Avenue

The Museum of Contemporary Art’s flagship building on Grand Avenue, showing work from its permanent collection alongside temporary exhibitions. General
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Japanese American National Museum

The national museum of Japanese American history, on the Little Tokyo campus at First and Central. It remains an active