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The Huntington Library, Art Museum and Botanical Gardens will reopen its art galleries Saturday after more than one year of closure due to the coronavirus pandemic.  Attendance will be limited to 50% of capacity, and visitors must obtain tickets in advance at huntington.org.  Available for viewing will be the newly restored masterpiece of 18th- century British portraiture, “The Blue...

Ann Burroughs showed us why an exhibit that sits at the heart of LA’s Japanese American National Museum is one of the reasons the museum officially reopened its doors after months of Covid-related closure. Gordon Tokumatsu reports for NBC4 News at 5 p.m. on April 16, 2021.

Southern Californians finally got the chance to enjoy some of the things they missed and love the most, from theme parks to pro sports to museums like the LACMA. Jonathan Gonzalez reports for NBC4 News at 11 p.m. on April 1, 2021.

Your ’80s-era zoom-zoom dreams are coming true: The TV star car will be a part of the museum’s high-end auto repository.

A pair of Exposition Park museums will reopen their doors Saturday after year-long closures prompted by the COVID-19 pandemic, but capacity will be limited and advance tickets are required.

The California Science Center was closed for more than a year, but it finally opened its doors this weekend. Kim Tobin reports for NBC4 News at 5 p.m. on March 27, 2021.

SoCal Museums and the California Association of Museums have partnered on the project, an urgent reminder for people to mask-up.

The National Museum of the United States Army in Fort Belvoir, Virginia, is opening its doors on Veterans Day.

Museums are being called on to examine what’s on their walls amid a national reckoning on racism

Italian authorities released footage of an Austrian tourist who broke part of a historic sculpture after sitting on it for a photo opp.

The Griffith Park museum hopes to catalog items in order to preserve the stories within the “Black Lives Matter Protests in the West” initiative.

The Century City cultural destination shuttered in response to the coronavirus, but it will not reopen.

The Westwood museum remains closed, temporarily, but you can find programming online.

Learn something new and explore some of the world’s best museums from the comfort of your couch. Here is a list of SoCal museums that are displaying some of their exhibits online. Getty Museum: The iconic museum perched above the city is offering online ways to explore the 15,000-item collection room by room. There are also two full online...

We’ve all used our library card to check out books, but did you know that many libraries offer a ton of awesome freebies? From online classes to free museum passes, find out what extra perks you can get from your local library.

The Children’s Discovery Museum of the Desert, which remains closed due to the coronavirus pandemic, announced Friday it has begun posting free children’s educational programming on its social media pages, such as how to make a water xylophone. The Rancho Mirage-based nonprofit plans to regularly post activities rooted in STEAM – or science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics – along…