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Chinese(quietly) promoting public transit
In case you aren’t familiar with it, MuseumsLA is an offshoot of the ExperienceLA website, but focused (of course) just on museums. These websites encourage angelenos to take advantage of our city’s rich cultural offerings by taking the train. Or bus. Anything but a car.
I think it’s a terrific idea, but I’d like to see the public transit trumpetted front and center.
Anyway, MuseumsLA is promoting a Museum-Free-For-All day on Saturday, October 6. Here’s a link to their announcement/
And here’s a list of participating museums (note that some of these museums, like the Getty, are free anyways):
* Armory Center for the Arts
* Autry National Center’s Museum of the American West
* California African American Museum
* California Heritage Museum
* California Science Center
* Craft and Folk Art Museum
* Fowler Museum at UCLA
* The Getty Center
* Hammer Museum
* Japanese American National Museum
* Laguna Art Museum
* Long Beach Museum of Art
* Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)
* The Museum of Television & Radio
* The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA)
* Museum of Latin American Art (MoLAA)
* Museum of Tolerance
* Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
* Norton Simon Museum
* Orange County Center for Contemporary Art
* Orange County Museum of Art
* Page Museum at the La Brea Tar Pits
* Pacific Asia Museum
* Santa Monica Museum of Art
* Skirball Cultural Center
* Southwest Museum of the American Indian.
I may be “organizing” a group of Long Beachers to hit up the MoLAA. But personally, I’ve been eager to check out the Autry, or the NHM (although, sadly, the Spider Pavillion would still cost extra, I think).
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Actually I think the Spider Pavillion is free with museum admission.
Do check out MoLAA. It’s free on Fridays, and with the recent add-on it underwent it has much more wonderful art on display.
Ah, my mistake. I somehow missed the detail about it being a free day for all of the museums listed.
I’m lame.
wish i’d waited a week to check out the “arts of latin america…” exhibition at lacma. oh well.
Raphael, do you know during the summers Long Beach Transit runs a special museum bus?
Not too many people take it, because it’s a special service. It’s a summertime service, and the schedule is typically listed in the spring shake-up bus book.
It stemmed from trips to the Getty, but now goes to several Southland museums throughout the summer.
You have to buy a ticket at the Transit Mall information center. Then, you pick up the bus at the Transit Mall and go to the museum. Typically, it departs at 9 a.m. and leaves the museum at 4 p.m.
LBT uses a special bus, #2000, a giant Prevost tour coach.
I meant to use it, but never did. I think it’s a great idea, although a bit strange how it’s a different destination every time, rather than a regular route. But it’s a great reason to try a museum you may not have otherwise considered!
Does LA do anything similar?
The free admission does nothing to promote public transportation. Parking is still listed but it says nowhere that people should take the metro. See http://www.museumsla.org/news.asp
If they would offer free admission to only those people who show their bus/metro tickets (see GlobalInheritance) then I would see it as a promotion for public transportation. But this does nothing to promote it.
don’t see how any of this promotes public transit - there are no metro routes listed on any of the museums, just driving directions.
In San Francisco, a few of the museums in Golden Gate Park give a discount with proof you took MUNI. Which is nice if you took MUNI but kinda dicks you over if you walk or bike. But what can you do?
Post #7 reflects my concerns well. The metro connection is often too subtle. On the flipside, few of these museums give transit directions on their webpages.
Reminds me of an odd experience I had going to the Museum of Art at Cal State Long Beach many months ago. I called the museum to ask how to get there by bus. The person wasn’t aware that Long Beach had a bus system. I then called LB Transit, to ask how to get to the museum. The person there wasn’t aware that Long Beach had a University.
(By the way–the university is well served by numerous LB Transit lines, as well as OCTA and Metro)
Dang! Got here too late . . . but at least I found out that the Latin American Art Museum is free on a Friday…so that will help me for my next visit to LA!