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===Museums and galleries=== {{See also|List of museums in Los Angeles|List of museums in Los Angeles County, California}} [[File:Getty Villa exterior.jpg|thumb|right|The [[Getty Villa]] is one of the two campuses of the [[J. Paul Getty Museum]], alongside the [[Getty Center]].]] There are 841 museums and art galleries in [[Los Angeles County, California|Los Angeles County]],<ref name="lmu">{{cite web|url=http://www.lmu.edu/about/The_Los_Angeles_Region.htm|title=The Los Angeles Region|date=May 5, 2008|publisher=[[Loyola Marymount University]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111018115613/http://www.lmu.edu/about/The_Los_Angeles_Region.htm|archive-date=October 18, 2011|url-status=dead|access-date=October 20, 2011}}</ref> more museums per capita than any other city in the U.S.<ref name="lmu" /> Some of the notable museums are the [[Los Angeles County Museum of Art]] (the largest art museum in the Western United States<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lacma.org/overview|title=Overview|publisher=[[Los Angeles County Museum of Art]]|access-date=October 20, 2011|archive-date=September 13, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180913200420/http://www.lacma.org/overview|url-status=live}}</ref>), the [[Getty Center]] (part of the [[J. Paul Getty Trust]], the world's wealthiest art institution<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2009-mar-16-et-getty16-story.html|title=Getty slashes operating budget after severe investment losses|last=Boehm|first=Mike|date=March 16, 2009|newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]]|access-date=October 20, 2011|archive-date=January 11, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120111131152/http://articles.latimes.com/2009/mar/16/entertainment/et-getty16|url-status=live}}</ref>), the [[Petersen Automotive Museum]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.petersen.org/|title=Welcome to the Petersen Automotive Museum|website=petersen.org|access-date=July 25, 2022|archive-date=July 28, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220728155057/https://www.petersen.org/|url-status=live}}</ref> the [[Huntington Library]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.huntington.org/about|title=About the Huntington|website=[[Huntington Library]]|access-date=July 25, 2022|archive-date=July 26, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220726215244/https://www.huntington.org/about|url-status=live}}</ref> the [[Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County|Natural History Museum]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://nhm.org/|title=Natural History Museum of Los Angeles|website=nhm.org|access-date=July 25, 2022|archive-date=July 25, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220725005510/https://nhm.org/|url-status=live}}</ref> the [[Battleship Iowa]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.pacificbattleship.com/|title=Battleship USS Iowa Official website|website=Pacificbattleship.com|access-date=July 25, 2022|archive-date=January 16, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210116044727/https://www.pacificbattleship.com/|url-status=live}}</ref> [[The Broad]], which houses over 2,000 works of contemporary art<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://brianpetruzzelli.com/modern-architecture-in-los-angeles/|title=Modern Architecture in Los Angeles|website=brianpetruzzelli.com|date=November 8, 2022|access-date=March 18, 2023|archive-date=March 22, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230322212657/https://brianpetruzzelli.com/modern-architecture-in-los-angeles/|url-status=live}}</ref> and the [[Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles|Museum of Contemporary Art]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.moca.org/about/mission-and-history|title=Welcome to the Museum of Contemporary Art|website=moca.org|access-date=July 25, 2022|archive-date=August 8, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220808003452/https://www.moca.org/about/mission-and-history|url-status=live}}</ref> A significant number of art galleries are on [[Gallery Row]], and tens of thousands attend the monthly Downtown Art Walk there.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/local/la-xpm-2011-aug-05-la-me-0805-art-walk-20110805-story.html|title=Downtown L.A. Art Walk safety changes planned|last=Mather|first=Kate|date=August 5, 2011|newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]]|access-date=October 20, 2011|archive-date=January 11, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120111130549/http://articles.latimes.com/2011/aug/05/local/la-me-0805-art-walk-20110805|url-status=live}}</ref>
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