Museum of Contemporary Art – Art at downtown

The Museum of Contemporary Art is what downtown Los Angeles has to offer for people interested in arts. For such a big metropolis, it is not that much. If you tune down your expectations from MOMA or San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the museum is quite a nice experience.

As name implies, the collection is for contemporary art. Expect to see a lot of video art, and pieces that some people would not call pieces of art at all. There are some big names, such as Rothko, but also a lot of new finds.

The museum is pretty compact, and it is easily toured in an hour or two, unless you watch every video installation. There is also a café with both cold and hot food, and a decent museum store.

The surroundings of the museum are quite nice, and easily explored by foot — but you pretty much have to arrive by a car. There is parking space available in the nearby Walt Disney Concert Hall. Remember to validate your parking ticket when buying museum tickets, there is a good discount available.

www.moca.org, 250 South Grand Avenue (near Walt Disney Concert Hall), Los Angeles, CA, USA, +1 213 621 1745