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Norton Simon Museum vs Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
Both Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County and Norton Simon Museum are highly recommended by professional reviewers. Overall, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County is preferred by most professionals compared to Norton Simon Museum. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County comes in at 90 with praise from 9 reviewers like Time Out, Not For Tourists and Fodor's.
Norton Simon Museum
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411 W. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91105
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Fodor's
"It's one of the finest small museums anywhere, with an excellent collection that spans more than 2,000 years of Western and Asian art."
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"Amid beautiful gardens inspired by Monet's Giverny, this somewhat drab, boxy museum (built in 1969) had its interior spruced up by Frank Gehry in the late '90s."
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Top Choice
"Rodin’s The Thinker is only a mind-teasing overture to the full symphony of art in store at this exquisite museum."
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Travel + Leisure
"Visit industrialist Norton Simon’s huge collection of fine art, including works by Degas, Renoir, Gauguin, and Cézanne."
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Michelin Guide
2 Stars
"Elegantly displayed in a spare contemporary building are 1,000 works from a private art collection spanning seven centuries of European painting and sculpture and 2,00 years of Asian sculpture."
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Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
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900 Exposition Blvd., Exposition Park, Los Angeles, CA 90007
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Fodor's
"This 1913-built beaux-arts museum has the same quaint feel of many natural history museums, with enclosed dioramas of animals in their natural habitats."
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Lonely Planet
Top Choice
"Dinos to diamonds, bears to beetles, hissing roaches to African elephants – this museum will take you around the world and back millions of years in time."
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Travel + Leisure
"This grand museum showcasing history, science, and art celebrates its 100th anniversary this year with the opening of a new permanent exhibit, Becoming L.A."
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Time Out
"The NHM's original Beaux Arts structure was the first museum building in Los Angeles, opening with Exposition Park itself back in 1913."
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Not For Tourists
"Kids just love the dinosaur fossils."
