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Los Angeles County Museum of Art vs La Brea Tar Pits and Museum
Both are highly recommended by professional reviewers. On balance, Los Angeles County Museum of Art is preferred by most professionals compared to La Brea Tar Pits and Museum. Los Angeles County Museum of Art scores 95 with approval from 11 publications like Travel + Leisure, Lonely Planet and Frommer's.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
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5905 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90036
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Fodor's
"Without a doubt, LACMA is the focal point of the museum district that runs along Wilshire Boulevard."
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Concierge
"LACMA's permanent collection of over 100,000 works includes everything from extraordinary Asian antiquities to period costumes to contemporary artworks."
Lonely Planet
Top Choice
"LA’s premier art museum, LACMA is an Aladdin’s cave of paintings, sculpture and decorative arts stretching across ages and borders."
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Condé Nast Traveler
"Dedicated to contemporary art, MOCA consistently mounts boundary-pushing, provocative shows."
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Not For Tourists
"From King Tut to Jasper Johns, this museum covers it all."
La Brea Tar Pits and Museum
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5801 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90036
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"A bas-relief around four sides depicts life in the Pleistocene era, and the museum has more than 3 million Ice Age fossils."
Lonely Planet
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"You’ll likely have a ball at the unique Page Museum, an archaeological trove of skulls and bones unearthed at La Brea Tar Pits, one of the world’s most fecund and famous fossil sites."
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Lonely Planet
"Between 10,000 and 40,000 years ago, tarlike bubbling crude oil trapped saber-toothed cats, mammoths and other extinct ice-age critters."
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Time Out
"Back in 1875, a group of amateur paleontologists discovered animal remains in the pits at Rancho La Brea, which bubbled with asphalt from a petroleum lake under what is now Hancock Park."
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Michelin Guide
1 Star
"Hancock Park, the public park embracing the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Page Museum, is the setting for the world's largest and most diverse cache of Ice Age plant and animal..."
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