Uncommon Southland Experience Devoted to collecting works of art and masterpieces through the span of history and geographically the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Known as LACMA) has truly represented Los Angeles's uniquely diverse population.
One of the most popular cities in the Unites States of America, Los Angeles is famously known for the residency of celebrities, sunny perfect weather, gorgeous beaches, and distribution of produced movies, shows and series as well as a very popular tourist attraction. The metropolis of Los Angles is very much known as the entertainment capital of the world, a cultural location of diverse backgrounds, boasting more than 300 museums, and a plethora of opportunities. From tourist attractions like the Walk of Fame’s collection of stars (numbering 2,482, and growing by one or two a month) to the Hollywood sign nestled in the Hollywood hills overlooking the city (Susan Lomax, Discover Los Angles). It is fairly easy for one of the 40.3 million visiting tourist (Susan Lomax, Discover Los Angles) or local residents to find something entertaining and fun to occupy their time. When examining the many opportunities within this metropolis visiting a museum is unfortunately not a very popular choice, knowing this the Los Angeles County Museum of Art has done many changes and adaptations throughout time to compete with the popularity of the city’s known visitations. On how the growth of the museum and art exhibitions has reached to the older crowd enjoying its original beauty, to the elegance and serenity of romantic couples. The Los Angles Museum of Art has displayed much ethical appeal to the city as along with the many emotions of beauty, understanding, creativity and opinions constructed from the minds of the consumers who present LACMA the opportunity.
Throughout the growth, changes and economical separations within the county of Los Angles, the display of consistency orchestrated by the Museum of Arts located on the busy Wilshire boulevard has stood the test of time as it has brought in about a million visitors each year. In the year of 1961 is was officially established as an art museum by the committee and trustees of Los Angeles, as four years later the constructed vision of the official art museum representation of the city was officially opened on the busy corner of Wilshire boulevard and Fairfax avenue. The complex continued to grow as a boom in popularity and money consumption helped with the construction in 1986 of The Anderson Building opening (it is now called the Art of the Americas building--as of 2007); the structure is home to modern and contemporary works of art (About.com, Los Angeles). Even in the year of 1994 LACMA acquired the neighboring building, the former May Company department store building, with the purchase this established its location on the corner of Wilshire and Fairfax later known as the West Building of the complex (About.com, Los Angeles). About ten years later the museum began new ground in the vision of transformation for the future, as the trustees for the museum approved the project in which it revitalized the western half of the campus with a collection of buildings designed by Renzo Piano Building Workshop. Which included the demolition of the former parking structure and construction of the newer underground parking location. These include the Broad Contemporary Art Museum, a three-story 60,000 square foot space for the exhibition of postwar art that opened in 2008. In fall of 2010, the Lynda and Stewart Resnick Exhibition Pavilion opened to the public, providing the largest purpose-built, naturally lit, open-plan museum space in the world, with a rotating selection of major exhibitions (LACMA.com). The Los Angles museum of Art has continued to evolve through time within the city even aiding in the preservation of popular but not famous Los Angeles county icons which include the Watts Towers in south central, eventually making the museum an
