Academy of Motion Picture Arts and ScienCES The organization that presents the Oscars offers entertainment industry–related displays and film series. Opening May 16 Ink & Paint: The Art of Hand-Drawn Animation; Pulling Back the Drapes: Set Decoration Revealed. Tues.–Fri. 10 a.m.–5 p.m.; Sat.–Sun. noon–6 p.m. Free. 8949 Wilshire Blvd., Beverly Hills, 310.247.3600. Map J11

Autry National Center's Museum of the American West Continuing Cowboys and Presidents; All the Saints of the City of the Angels. Tues.–Sun. 10 a.m.–5 p.m. $3–$9, under 3 free. 4700 Western Heritage Way, Griffith Park, L.A., 323.667.2000. Map H14

California African American Museum California African American Museum History, culture, art. Continuing In Motion: The African American Migration Experience; The African Presence in Mexico: From Yanga to the Present; Common Ground. Tues.–Sat. 10 a.m.–5 p.m.; Sunday 11 a.m.–5 p.m. Free. 600 State Drive, Exposition Park, 213.744.7432. Map M8 www.caamuseum.org

California Heritage Museum Opening May 7 Mexican Calendar Girls, The Golden Age of Mexican Calendar Art, 1930–1960. Continuing Lights! Camera! Glamour!: The Photographs of George Hurrell. American decorative arts, folk art. $3–$5, under 12 free. Wed.–Sun. 11 a.m.–4 p.m. 2612 Main St., Santa Monica, 310.392.8537. Map M8

California Science Center Interactive exhibits. Through May 31 FADE: The Dark Side of Light. Continuing Body Worlds 3. Free. Separate admission for Imax films and Animation, a hands-on exhibit exploring the science behind the art. Parking $6. Daily 10 a.m.–5 p.m. 700 State Drive, Exposition Park, downtown, 323.SCIENCE. Map K15

Chinese American Museum Continuing Sunshine & Shadow: In Search of Jake Lee; Growing Up Chinese American: Childhood Toys and Memories. $1–$3 donation. Tues.–Sun. 10 a.m.–3 p.m. El Pueblo de Los Angeles, 425 N. Los Angeles St., downtown, 213.485.8567. Map H17

Craft AND Folk Art Museum Museum Row venue offers exhibits ranging from Haitian voodoo to harvest rituals. Opening May 11 Ironings by Mung Lar Lam. Through May 18 Mythical Creatures & Characters: Tales From Around the World. $3–$5, under 12 free. Tues.–Fri. 11 a.m.–5 p.m., Thurs. until 7 p.m.; Sat.–Sun. noon–6 p.m. 5814 Wilshire Blvd., L.A., 323.937.4230. Map J13

FASHION institute of design and merchandising Opening May 19 Aesthetes, Bohemians & Craftsmen: Artistic Dress, 1880s–1920s. Ongoing Selections From the Annette Green Perfume Museum. Costume Design: Mon.–Sat. 10 a.m.–5 p.m. Perfume: Mon–Fri. 10 a.m.–5 p.m.; Sat. 10 a.m.–4 p.m. Free. 919 S. Grand Ave., downtown, 213.624.1200. Map I16

fowler museum Opening May 25 Fowler in Focus: Ceramics of Papua New Guinea. Continuing Mami Wata: Arts for Water Spirits in Africa and Its Diasporas; "Please Listen, People": Addressing HIV/AIDS in Bengal Scroll Paintings; Make Art/Stop AIDS. Ongoing Intersections: World Arts, Local Lives. Free, parking $8. Wed.–Sun. noon–5 p.m.; Thurs. until 8 p.m. UCLA, 308 Charles E. Young Drive N., Westwood, 310.825.4361. Map I10

Getty Center Beautiful travertine-clad hilltop facility houses stunning collections of paintings, drawings, antiquities, photographs and decorative arts. Fabulous central garden and city views. Opening May 6 Imagining Christ; Bernd and Hilla Becher: Basic Forms; August Sander: People of the Twentieth Century. Through May 4 Consuming Passion: Fragonard's Allegories of Love; Ten Years of Drawings: What, How and Why. Continuing California Video; Ten Years in Focus: The Artist and the Camera; Lessons from Bernard Rudofsky; Classical Connections: The Enduring Influence of Greek and Roman Art; Please Be Seated: A Video Installation by Nicole Cohen. Tues.–Thurs., Sun. 10 a.m.–6 p.m.; Fri.–Sat. 10 a.m.–9 p.m. Free, parking $7. 1200 Getty Center Drive, L.A., 310.440.7300. Map K7 www.getty.edu

Getty Villa Getty Center's exquisite coastal counterpart features Roman, Greek antiquities. Continuing The Color of Life: Polychromy in Sculpture from Antiquity to the Present; The Hope Hygieia: Restoring a Statue's History. New Villa Theater Lab Series. Free, parking $7. Advance tickets required. Thurs.–Mon. 10 a.m.–5 p.m. 17985 Pacific Coast Hwy., Malibu, 310.440.7300. Map K7 www.getty.edu

Hammer Museum Traveling shows, installations and permanent collection. Through May 25 Hammer Projects: Mitzi Pederson. Continuing And Then Again... Printed Sets and Series, 1500–2007; Kara Walker: My Complement, My Enemy, My Oppressor, My Love; Hammer Projects: Aaron Morse. Tues.–Wed., Fri.–Sat. 11 a.m.–7 p.m., Thurs. until 9 p.m., Sun. until 5 p.m. $3–$5. 10899 Wilshire Blvd., Westwood, 310.443.7000. Map J10 www.hammer.ucla.edu

Hollywood Museum Five thousand artifacts on four floors: costumes such as Nicole Kidman's in Moulin Rouge, sets including Hannibal Lecter's cell, props, photos, movie posters, scripts, Max Factor's makeup rooms, where Marilyn Monroe became a blonde and Lucille Ball a redhead. In restored Max Factor Building. Thurs.–Sun. 10 a.m.–5 p.m. $12–$15. 1660 N. Highland Ave., Hollywood, 323.464.7776. Map H13 www.thehollywoodmuseum.com

Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical GardensStellar art, buildings and grounds, children's garden. Gallery includes Pinkie and The Blue Boy. Through May 12 The Legacy of Wallace Neff; Smith on Wry: Jack Smith, Columnist for Our Times. New: Garden of Flowing Fragrance. Mon., Wed.–Fri. noon–4:30 p.m.; Sat.–Sun. 10:30 a.m.–4:30 p.m. $6–$20, under 5 free. 1151 Oxford Road, San Marino, 626.405.2141. Map R21 www.huntington.org

Japanese American National Museum Through May 4 One Way or Another: Asian American Art Now. Through May 30 kip fulbeck: part asian, 100% hapa. Ongoing Common Ground: The Heart of Community. Tues.–Sun. 11 a.m.–5 p.m., Thurs. until 8 p.m. $4–$8, under 5 free. 369 E. 1st St., downtown, 213.625.0414. Map H17

Long Beach Museum of Art Craft and folk arts. Continuing Three: Fern Bowen, Carl Aldana and Lori LaMont; Gord Peteran: Furniture Meets Its Maker. Open Tues.–Sun. 11 a.m.–5 p.m. $6–$7. Fridays free. 2300 E. Ocean Blvd., Long Beach, 562.439.2119. Map O16

Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) Diverse premier collections; LACMA West nearby. Opening May 22 Philip-Lorca diCorcia. Continuing BCAM at LACMA: The Inaugural Installation; Doctrinal Nourishment: Art and Anarchism in the Time of James Ensor; Phantom Sightings: Art After the Chicano Movement; Tradition as Innovation in African Art. New The Broad Contemporary Art Museum. Mon., Tues., Thurs. noon–8 p.m., Fri. until 9 p.m.; Sat.–Sun. 11 a.m.–8 p.m. Closed Wed. $8–$12, under 17 free. LACMA West free. LACMA, 5905 Wilshire Blvd. (Museum Row), and LACMA West, 6067 Wilshire Blvd., L.A., 323.857.6000. Map J13 www.lacma.org

Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) Premier contemporary art venue. Through May 19 Collecting Collections (GA). Through May 25 Inside Architecture: Selections From the Permanent Collection (PDC). Continuing Lawrence Weiner: As Far As the Eye Can See (GC); Allan Kaprow—Art as Life (GC). Mon. and Fri. 11 a.m.–5 p.m., Thurs. 11 a.m.–8 p.m.; Sat.–Sun. 11 a.m.–6 p.m. $5–$8, under 12 free. Free at PDC. MOCA Grand Avenue (GA), 250 S. Grand Ave, downtown; Geffen Contemporary (GC), 152 N. Central Ave., downtown; MOCA Gallery at Pacific Design Center (PDC), 8687 Melrose Ave., West Hollywood, 213.626.6222. Map H16, H17, I12

Museum of Jurassic Technology Subversive venue blends fact and fiction. Thurs. 2–8 p.m.; Fri.–Sun. noon–6 p.m. $3–$5 suggested donation. 9341 Venice Blvd., Culver City, 310.836.6131. Map L11

Museum of Latin American Art Artists of the Americas; Robert Gumbiner Sculpture Garden. Through May 18 Walter Goldfarb: D + Lirium; A Bridge to the Americas: Urban and Rural Landscape. Tues.–Fri. 11:30 a.m.–7 p.m.; Sat. 11 a.m.–7 p.m.; Sun. 11 a.m.–6 p.m.. $5–$7.50, under 12 free. 628 Alamitos Ave., Long Beach, 562.437.1689. Map O6 www.molaa.org

Museum of Tolerance Exhibits examine prejudice and discrimination, legacy of the Holocaust and human-rights issues. Ongoing: Finding Our Families, Finding Ourselves. Mon.–Fri. 10 a.m.–5 p.m.; Sun. 11 a.m.–5 p.m. $10–$13. 9786 W. Pico Blvd., West L.A., 310.553.8403. Map J11
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Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County Thirty-three million objects from dino fossils to fish. Popular First Fridays series continues. Continuing Pavilion of Wings butterfly garden. Ongoing On the Move: A Photographic Survey of the Natural History Museum's 1913 Building. Mon.–Fri. 9:30 a.m.–5 p.m.; Sat.–Sun. 10 a.m.–5 p.m. $2–$9, under 5 free. 900 Exposition Blvd., downtown, 213.763.DINO. Map K15

Norton Simon Museum tellar collection of Renaissance to 20th-century masterworks and sculpture garden. Through May 12 Tales of the Blue Lord. Opening May 30 A Garland of Melodies: Ragamala Paintings from India and Nepal. Continuing Marcel Duchamp Redux; Maillol's Miniatures. Wed.–Mon. noon–6 p.m., Fri. until 9 p.m. $4–$8, under 18 free. 411 W. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, 626.449.6840. Map Q19 www.nortonsimon.org

Pacific Asia Museum Latest addition is gallery of Japanese art. Opening May 1 Pacifika: Young Perspectives on Pacific Island Art. Through May 11 Lotus Moon: The Art of Otagaki Rengetsu. Continuing Chinaman's Chance: Four Views of the Chinese American Experience. Wed.–Sun. 10 a.m.–6 p.m. $5–$7, under 12 free. 46 N. Los Robles Ave., Pasadena, 626.449.2742. Map R20

Page Museum at the La Brea Tar Pits Ice Age L.A. Mon.–Fri. 9:30 a.m.–5 p.m.; Sat.–Sun. 10 a.m.–5 p.m. $2–$7, under 5 free. 5801 Wilshire Blvd., L.A., 323.934.PAGE. Map J13

PALEY CENTER FOR MEDIA Museum of Television & Radio is renamed. Exhibits, screenings and radio–listening series; tens of thousands of programs on view. Wed.–Sun. noon–5 p.m. Free. 465 N. Beverly Drive, Beverly Hills, 310.786.1000. Map I11

Pasadena Museum of California Art California art, architecture, design. May 2–18 PUSD No Boundaries: 97th Annual Gold Medal Juried Exhibition. Through May 18 California Art Club's 97th Annual Gold Medal Juried Exhibition. Wed.–Sun. noon–5 p.m. $5–$7, under 12 free. 490 E. Union St., Pasadena, 626.568.3665. Map Q19

Petersen Automotive Museum Continuing The Art of Cars, based on the Pixar film; 60 Years of NASCAR; Treasures From the Vault; La Vida Lowrider: Cruising the City of Angels. Ongoing Hot Wheels Hall of Fame; Alternative Power: Lessons From the Past, Inspiration for the Future; Hollywood Star Cars. Tues.–Sun. 10 a.m.–6 p.m. $3–$10, under 5 free. 6060 Wilshire Blvd., L.A., 323.930.CARS. Map J13

Skirball Cultural Center The American Jewish experience. Continuing Bob Dylan's American Journey, 1956-1966; Israeli Women: A Portrait in Photographs; Ziva Sivan: Painting Is Her Home. Ongoing Visions and Values: Jewish Life From Antiquity to America. Tues.–Fri. noon–5 p.m.; Sat.–Sun. 10 a.m.–5 p.m. $5–10, children under 2 free. 2701 N. Sepulveda Blvd., L.A., 310.440.4500. Map G9