Since 1975, we have been collecting, preserving, and promoting the history of Santa Monica. Visit us today and discover the colorful history of Santa Monica.

The Eames Office is dedicated to communicating, preserving and extending the work of Charles and Ray Eames. We feel that all three of those dimensions are important to keeping the office useful and vital. We believe that all of Charles and Ray's work was the result...

Our mission is to present displays of American decorative and fine arts and to promote the passion that is collecting.

The Santa Monica Museum of Art is an independent non-collecting art museum located in Santa Monica, California. It exhibits the work of local, national, and international contemporary artists. Through its exhibitions, education, and outreach programs, the Santa...

SPARC is a cultural center that creates public art as a vehicle to promote civic dialogue, foster cross-cultural understanding and address critical social issues. SPARC’s intention is: to examine what we choose to memorialize through public art, to devise and...

Will Rogers State Historic Park is the former estate of American humorist Will Rogers. It lies in the Santa Monica mountains in Los Angeles, in the Pacific Palisades area.

Adobe de Palomares was the 13 room home of Don Ygnacio Palomares and his wife, Dona Concepcion Lopez de Palomares. The Palomares and Vejar families owned the Rancho San Jose, which covered eastern Los Angeles county, some 150 years ago. The land now covers many...

The Armand Hammer Museum of Art contains a small collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist art. The museum holds over 7500 works by French satirist Honoré Daumier, the largest collection outside of Paris. In recent years, the Hammer has become well known...

The Mildred E. Mathias Botanical Garden is a small 7-acre (2.8 ha) botanical garden. It is named after Dr. Mildred Esther Mathias Hassler (1906–1995), a noted American botanist. The garden is frost-free, includes about 5,000 species in 225 families, and maintains...

The Mildred E. Mathias Botanical Garden is a small 7-acre (2.8 ha) botanical garden. It is named after Dr. Mildred Esther Mathias Hassler (1906–1995), a noted American botanist. The garden is frost-free, includes about 5,000 species in 225 families, and maintains...