SoCal Museums announced today that this year’s Museums Free-for-All, an initiative started almost 20 years ago to invite new audiences and encourage cultural participation across Southern California, will take place on Saturday, March 23, 2024. This year more than 30 museums and cultural institutions are participating in the annual event, which has become a celebration of the region’s vibrant cultural landscape.
“We are thrilled, once again, to invite visitors from across Southern California to see the remarkable range of art, cultural heritage, natural history, film, and science that our museums and cultural organizations have to offer. The Museums Free-for-All has always been an opportunity for people to see something new or to revisit a treasured spot,” says Alexa Nishimoto, SoCal Museums President and Marketing Associate, Japanese American National Museum. “The Free-for-All also serves as a reminder that many museums here in Southern California are always free and others offer these types of opportunities year round.”
A calendar of free days can be found at socalmuseums.org/free.
This offer is for general museum admission only and does not apply to specially ticketed exhibitions. Regular parking fees apply at each museum. Consult individual SoCal museum websites for hours, directions, and other visitor information.
• Academy Museum of Motion Pictures
(Advanced reservations encouraged. Visit academymuseum.org to make a reservation)
• American Museum of Ceramic Art
(Advanced reservations are required. Visit amoca.org to make a reservation)
• Armory Center for the Arts
• Autry Museum of the American West
(Advanced reservations are required. Visit theautry.org to make a reservation)
• Benton Museum of Art at Pomona College
• Bowers Museum
• The Broad
(Advanced reservations are encouraged. Visit thebroad.org to make a reservation)
• California Botanic Garden
• California Science Center
• Carolyn Campagna Kleefeld Contemporary Art Museum
• Catalina Museum for Art & History
• Cayton Children's Museum
(Advanced reservations are required. Visit caytonmuseum.org to make a reservation)
• Columbia Memorial Space Center
• Craft Contemporary
• Forest Lawn Museum
• Fowler Museum at UCLA
• Frederick R. Weisman of Art, Pepperdine University
• The Getty Center
(Timed tickets are required for the Getty Center. Visit getty.edu to make a reservation)
• The Getty Villa
(Timed tickets are required for the Getty Villa. Visit getty.edu to make a reservation)
• GRAMMY Museum
• Hammer Museum
• Holocaust Museum LA
(Reservations required. Visit holocaustmuseumla.org)
• Institute of Contemporary Art, LA
• The International Printing Museum
• Japanese American National Museum
(Advance tickets strongly recommended. Visit janm.org to make a reservation)
• Laguna Art Museum
• La Brea Tar Pits & Museum
(Advance tickets required. Visit tarpits.org to make a reservation)
• LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes
• Lincoln Memorial Shrine
• Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)
(Advance tickets are required. Visit lacma.org to make a reservation)
• The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA)
(Advance tickets are recommended. Visit moca.org to make a reservation)
• Museum of Latin American Art (MOLAA)
• Museum of Ventura County
• Orange County Museum of Art
• Santa Barbara Museum of Art
• Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History
(Advanced reservations encouraged. Visit sbnature.org Sea Center not included)
• Santa Monica History Museum
• Skirball Cultural Center
(Advance tickets strongly recommended. Visit skirball.org to make a reservation)
• Wende Museum
• Zimmerman Automobile Driving Museum
Submitted by Emma Jacobson-Sive
