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# 37 Museums in Southern California Will Be Free on January 28
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/free-southern-california-museums-january-28/
- Published: 2017-12-20T20:43:36.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T16:40:30.000Z
- Description: Institutions including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Pasadena Museum of California Art, and the Craft & Folk Art Museum are participating in the free admission initiative.
- Author: Benjamin Sutton
- Tags: In Brief, Los Angeles, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-hidden, #Import 2025-11-24 07:30(2016, 2017, part 3)

![The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (photo by Carol M. Highsmith, via Wikimedia Commons)](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2017/12/lacma-exterior-free-museums-lead.jpg)

The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (photo by Carol M. Highsmith, via Wikimedia Commons)

If you’re an Angeleno who’s overdue for a big day of museum-going, set aside January 28\. For the 13th edition of [Museums Free-for-All Day](http://www.socalmuseums.org/free-for-all/?ref=hyperallergic.com), a total of 37 institutions around southern California — including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) and the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) — will offer free admission on Sunday, January 28, 2018\. The lineup of participating institutions was announced today by [SoCal Museums](http://www.socalmuseums.org/?ref=hyperallergic.com), an organization run by communications workers at institutions throughout southern California. The full lineup of participating institutions — some of which, admittedly, always have free admission — is included below:

- Annenberg Space for Photography
- Autry Museum of the American West
- The Broad
- California African American Museum
- California Science Center
- Columbia Memorial Space Center
- Craft & Folk Art Museum
- Descanso Gardens
- Forest Lawn Museum
- Fowler Museum at UCLA
- Getty Center
- Getty Villa
- GRAMMY Museum
- Hammer Museum
- Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
- Japanese American National Museum
- Kidspace Children’s Museum
- La Brea Tar Pits and Museum
- LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes
- Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)
- The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA)
- Museum of Latin American Art (MOLAA)
- Museum of Tolerance
- Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
- Orange County Museum of Art
- The Paley Center for Media
- Palm Springs Art Museum
- Pasadena Museum of California Art
- Petersen Automotive Museum
- Pomona College Museum of Art
- Riverside Art Museum
- Santa Barbara Museum of Art
- Skirball Cultural Center
- Sunnylands Center & Gardens (Excludes tours of the historic house and grounds)
- University Art Museum, CSU Long Beach
- USC Fisher Museum (offering free admission on Saturday, January 27, instead of Sunday, January 28)
- Zimmer Children’s Museum