Exhibitions in Los Angeles

Academy Museum of Motion Pictures

Immersive exhibition on horror cinemas cultural impact, with props and costumes from Dracula, Creature from the Black Lagoon, Freddy Krueger, Michael Myers, and more, across six themed chambers.

Petersen Automotive Museum

A chronological timeline of record-setting automobiles from the postwar era to today, tracing how aerodynamics and powertrain design chased raw speed.

Norton Simon Museum

Traces the rivalry between San Francisco's purist and Los Angeles's experimental schools of postwar California photography.

The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA)

Japanese American artists, photographers and designers whose lives were upended by wartime incarceration, and the postwar work that followed.

Wende Museum · Free

Co-curated with a NASA historian, this show pairs Cold War-era and contemporary artworks with artifacts like a full-scale Sputnik-1 model on the Space Race and cosmos in art.

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens

Betye Saar's Huntington-commissioned site-specific installation: a 17-foot vintage wooden canoe with found objects including birdcages and antlers.

Petersen Automotive Museum

Explores the design dialogue between American automakers and Italian coachbuilders, pairing American mechanical strength with European styling.

Petersen Automotive Museum

Traces Waymo's evolution from Google's self-driving car project to a leading autonomous vehicle company, showing the tech turning sci-fi into reality.

California Science Center · Free

17,000-sq-ft exhibition with 25+ interactive activities exploring the science of sports and movement, featuring LA-based mentor athletes; on view through the 2028 Olympics.