Museum Free Days Around Los Angeles Free Admission Days at Los Angeles Area Museums By Kayte Deioma, About.com Guide Page Museum at the La Brea Tar Pits Always Free California African American Museum, Exposition Park, Downtown Los Angeles California Science Center, Exposition Park, Downtown Los Angeles UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History, Los Angeles The Getty Center, Brentwood, Los Angeles The Getty Villa, Pacific Palisades Hollywood Bowl Museum The Los Angeles Fire Department Museum, Hollywood, only open Saturdays 10-4 MOCA Pacific Design Center, West Hollywood Museum of Television and Radio, Beverly Hills Muckenthaler Cultural Center, Fullerton The Nethercutt Collection and Nethercutt Museum, Sylmar Santa Monica Museum of Art (Suggested $5 donation), Santa Monica STARS Center Sheriff’s Museum, 11515 Colima Rd. at Telegraph Rd., Whittier Weekly Free Museum Days Free Every Wednesday Raymond M. Alf Museum of Paleontology, Claremont Free Every Thursday Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Downtown Los Angeles - Free every Thursday from 5 to 8 pm MOCA Geffen Contemporary, Downtown Los Angeles - Free every Thursday from 5 to 8 pm Skirball Cultural Center - Free Thursdays noon - 9 pm UCLA Hammer Museum - every Thursday Japanese American National Museum, Little Tokyo, Los Angeles - Every Thursday 5 to 8 pm, and 3rd Thursday all day Free Every Friday Long Beach Museum of Art - Free Friday Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach - Free on Fridays, check website for Free Family Sundays Monthly Free Museum Days George C. Page Museum at the La Brea Tar Pits, Los Angeles - Free the first Tuesday of the month Natural History Museum, Exposition Park, Downtown Los Angeles - Free the first Tuesday of the month Craft and Folk Art Museum, Mid Wilshire, Museum Row, Los Angeles - First Wednesday Huntington Library, Collections and Botanical Gardens, Pasadena - Free first Thursday of the month. Free advance tickets required beginning Sept 6, 2007, available beginning the 1st of the preceding month (i.e. August 1 for Sept 6) Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena - 1st Fridays from 6 to 9 pm Bowers Museum, Santa Ana - First Sunday of the month is Target Free First Sunday. Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) - Mid-Wilshire, Museum Row, Los Angeles - 2nd Tuesday, check for other sponsored free days Autry National Center: Museum of the American West in Griffith Park, Los Angeles - the 2nd Tuesday of the month Los Angeles County Arboretum and Botanic Garden - free every 3rd Tuesday of the month Japanese American National Museum, Little Tokyo, Los Angeles - 3rd Thursday all day Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena - 4th Friday .