Summer Pamphlet 2023
Plan to fill your summer days visiting museums with this handy collection of summer information including free museum admission and new exhibits. Updated 22, 2023
Free Admission
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Bowers Museum - Sundays free for Santa Ana residents, active military
Discovery Cube Orange County - free Tuesdays for Santa Ana residents
The Huntington Library - museum employees
Museum of Jurassic Technology - museum employees
Norton Simon Museum - museum employees, EBT card holders
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La Brea Tar Pits and Page Museum - Mon - Fri 3p - 5p, LA residents only
Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County - Mon - Fri 3p - 5p, LA residents only
Los Angeles County Museum of Art - 3p - 5p every day except Wednesdays
Descanso Gardens - 3rd Tuesday of every month, tickets available 1st day day of month
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Laguna Art Museum - 1st Thursday of every month from 6p - 9p
Holocaust Museum of Los Angeles
Skirball Cultural Center
USC Pacific Asia Museum - Pay What You Wish every Thursday
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Holocaust Museum of Los Angeles
USC Pacific Asia Museum - 2nd Sunday of every month
Touch Some Grass This Summer
Check out your local arboretums and garden walks.
New Exhibits
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Plein art, painting landscapes outdoors, will be the theme for this exhibit. Exhibit will include art from multiple artists.
Plein Air | June 21 - Dec. 10, 2023
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Two new exhibits opening June 21: Ocean Encounters (temporary experience) and Sea Labs (permanent aquarium). Sea Labs will be an aquarium-style exhibit with shark and ray touch tanks, tide pools, and more. Both exhibits are included in general admission price.
Sea Lab | June 21, 2023
Ocean Encounters | June 21 - Sept. 4, 2023
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CAAM is currently closed for exhibit renovations and will reopen Aug. 5, but their upcoming exhibits have been announced.
A Movement in Every Direction: Legacies of the Great Migration | Aug. 5, 2023 - March 3, 2024
Black California Dreamin’: Claiming Space at America’s Leisure Front | Aug. 5, 2023 - March 31, 2024
Darol Olu Kae: Keeping Time | Aug. 5, 2023 - Jan. 15, 2024
We Are Not Strangers Here: African American Histories in Rural California | Aug. 5, 2023 - Jan. 21, 2024
Tatyana Fazlalizadeh: Speaking to Falling Seeds | Aug. 5, 2023 - Aug. 3, 2025
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Joseph Kleitsch: Abroad and At Home in Old Laguna | June 24 - Sept. 24
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Along with multiple art events happening throughout summer, Muzeo has two new exhibits for summer.
Rooted: Asserting Space in Contemporary Art | June 17 - Sept. 3, 2023
Colors Tell the Story: The Art of Irfan Murtaza | June 17 - Sept. 3, 2023
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Four new exhibits for summer and one more opening in fall, all with free admission.
Tony Lewis: CASUAL T | June 23, 2023 - March 10, 2024
Alice Neel: Feels Like Home | June 23 - Oct. 22, 2023
Yu Ji: A Guest, A Host, A Ghost | June 23 – October 22, 2023
Jennifer Guidi: And so it is. | Sept. 16, 2023 – Jan. 7, 2024
