A nice little museum inside the fun of Westwood
Monday, October 31, 2005
Armand Hammer had collected many incredible and priceless pieces of art. His catalog of incredible paintings includes works from Van Gogh, Monet, and many others. The collection is not as extensive as that of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) but does have many important and interesting pieces. It also has several galleries of rotating exhibitions that are usually quite nice and worth the trip alone. Also, the museum is often a great deal. If you are a student, bring you student ID, admission is free. Also, if possible visit during the summer or on a Thursday; again, admission is free during those times. Otherwise, adult general admission is only five dollars - a slightly scaled down version of that of many other museums. Above all, the Hammer's location rates higher than anything else. Westwood Village is a fun, quaint little village that can entertain for the entire day. It is filled with many neat movie theatres, small one of kind restaurants, and the beautiful campus of UCLA. Make a day of walking around the campus, going to a movie, and the museum. And above all, while parking is extremely hard to find - at all or cheap - the Hammer does offer validated parking that often is never even checked. So albeit marked that only the first few hours of visitation to the Hammer, when leaving the parking structure, visitors are often not charged (at least in my several visits). The museum's collection and its location within the small Westwood Village, make the museum are worthy trip.