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The Museum of Contemporary Art vs Hammer Museum
Both are rated very highly by experts. Overall, Hammer Museum scores slightly higher than The Museum of Contemporary Art. Hammer Museum comes in at #8 in Los Angeles with endorsements from 8 publications including Not For Tourists, Lonely Planet and goop.
The Museum of Contemporary Art
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250 S Grand Ave, Downtown, Los Angeles, CA 90012
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Lonely Planet
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"A collection that arcs from the 1940s to the present and includes works by Mark Rothko, Dan Flavin, Joseph Cornell and other big-shot contemporary artists."
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Travel + Leisure
"Hallmark events have included tributes to pioneering architects like Louis I. Kahn and Frank Gehry... plus celebrations of genres like graffiti art."
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Fodor's
"The galleries are inundated with works by groundbreakers like Jean-Michel Basquiat and Cindy Sherman."
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Not For Tourists
"Received much well-deserved attention for its wildly popular Andy Warhol retrospective."
Travel + Leisure
"MOCA (as it's known to locals) is ground zero for cutting-edge, post-1940 American and European art, from abstract expressionism to pop art to video installations."
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Hammer Museum
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10899 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90024
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Fodor's
"The bold murals and installations at this museum have been known to bring traffic on Wilshire Boulevard to a crawl."
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"The museum really shines when it comes to cutting-edge contemporary exhibits featuring local, under-represented and controversial artists."
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Time Out
"Industrialist Armand Hammer founded this museum, primarily to house his own collection."
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Not For Tourists
"Cutting-edge art museum with largely contemporary exhibits."
Travel + Leisure
"Houses wide-ranging permanent collections, from paintings by American and European masters to contemporary drawings by local Los Angeles artists to a lush sculpture garden. "
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