37 Sensational Kid-Friendly Museums in Los Angeles

Los Angeles has a wealth of amazing kid-friendly museums that contain interactive exhibits, cool experiments, live animals, and spectacular play spaces. 

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Kidspace Children’s Museum: Your Guide to Fun

Kidspace was designed for kids ages 1-10, and is a place families could easily spend all day.

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colorful flower sculpture at Kidspace Museum

Guide to The Huntington Library and Gardens

Families visiting The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens in San Marino will find so much to do and explore, from rare manuscripts, enchanting gardens, and stunning artwork to special events for the entire family. Our Guide to The Huntington has all the information you need to have a fun visit.

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The Aquarium of the Pacific: Family Fun with Ocean Creatures

The Aquarium of the Pacific is more than an aquarium. It is also the site of a variety of festivals and special programs held throughout the year. Daily, though, families will find more than 11,000 animal exhibits which represent about 500 different species, with many opportunities for kids to get up close and personal to a variety of marine life.

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15 Best-Loved Car Museums in SoCal

We hope you get a chance to visit each of these 15 Car Museums and collections, located in Los Angeles and all over Southern California. They all offer something a little different, and if you and your family are into Car Culture, we’re sure you’ll love them.

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Lightning McQueen at the Petersen

Exploring The Autry Museum of the American West

The Autry Museum celebrates the history, art, and culture of the American West. The Museum is home to a number of permanent exhibits that help visitors get a sense of how things have changed (and remained the same) over the years.

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Family Guide To Travel Town Museum

Families visiting Travel Town Museum in Griffith Park will find so much to do and explore including a collection of locomotives and passenger cars dating back to the 1800s. Our Guide to Travel Town has all the information you need to have a fun visit.

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The Los Angeles Zoo Family Guide

The Griffith Park Zoo opened in 1912 with just fifteen animals, a few miles from the current Zoo site. Today, you’ll find more than 1,000 mammals, birds, amphibians, and reptiles (representing more than 250 species) on more than 100 acres at the L.A. Zoo.

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Guide to the Petersen Automotive Museum

If you or your child is at all into cars, then make sure and visit the The Petersen Automative Museum; it’s like Disneyland for car enthusiasts.

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Lightning McQueen at the Petersen

The Cayton Children’s Museum [Formerly the Zimmer]

Families visiting the Zimmer Children’s Museum in Los Angeles will find so much to do and explore, from interactive exhibits to daily and weekly family programs. Our Guide to the Zimmer Children’s Museum has all the information you need to have a fun visit.

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The USS Battleship Iowa Museum in San Pedro

The USS Battleship Iowa, located in San Pedro harbor, is a unique Museum experience in Los Angeles, appropriate for families with kids of all ages.

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Guide to the Hammer Museum at UCLA

MomsLA is your source for Things to do in Los Angeles With Kids Families visiting the Hammer Museum at UCLA in Westwood will find so much to do and explore, from ongoing exhibits for adults and kids to special events for the entire family. Our Guide to the Hammer Museum…

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Guide to the La Brea Tar Pits and Museum

The La Brea Tar Pits and Page Museum is one of the coolest places to visit in Los Angeles. Not only can you see Ice Age Fossils on display, you can get up close to bubbling tar. You’ll find all there is to see and do in our Guide to the La Brea Tar Pits.

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Guide to the Skirball Cultural Center

Families visiting the Skirball Cultural Center in Brentwood will find so much to do and explore. From ongoing exhibits for adults and kids to special performances for the entire family. Our Guide to the Skirball Cultural Center has all the information you need to have a fun visit.

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Guide to the Griffith Observatory

The Griffith Observatory is described as “Southern California’s gateway to the cosmos!” The Observatory originally opened back in 1935. It closed in 2002 for a four year renovation and expansion.

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Guide to the GRAMMY Museum

A trip to the GRAMMY Museum really isn’t like any other museum visit.

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Guide to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)

The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) is home to more than 130,000 objects from around the globe and dating back to ancient times all the way to the present. LACMA is the largest art museum in the western United States and houses Asian art, Latin American art, Islamic art, European art, and modern art.

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Guide to The Getty Center

When you visit The Getty, you have the opportunity to view amazing art pieces as well as the opportunity to get a view of Los Angeles you don’t often see.

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Guide to The Getty in Los Angeles

Exploring The Natural History Museum

The Natural History Museum is one of those museums that offers something for everyone. Their permanent exhibits include Dinosaur Hall, the Gem and Mineral Hall, the outdoors Nature Gardens, the Animal Habitat Halls and much more.

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