Arts Miracle Mile

The famouse Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) is located on the no less famous Wilshire Boulevard in the part, which is called the Miracle Mile occupying an area of 8 hectares in Hancock Park in downtown Los Angeles. Today LACMA is the largest art museum in the western United States, with a collection that includes over 120,000 objects dating from antiquity to the present, encompassing the geographic world and nearly the entire history of art. Since its inception in 1965, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) has been devoted to collecting works of art that span both history and geography, in addition to representing Los Angeles’s uniquely diverse population. Among the museum’s strengths are its holdings of Asian art, Latin American art, ranging from pre-Columbian masterpieces to works by leading modern and contemporary artists; and Islamic art, of which LACMA hosts one of the most significant collections in the world.

In 2004 LACMA’s Board of Trustees unanimously approved plans to transform the museum, led by world-renowned architect Renzo Piano. An earlier plan for LACMA’s transformation was proposed by architect Rem Koolhaas. In November 2009, plans were made public that LACMA’s director Michael Govan was working with Swiss architect and Pritzker Prize laureate Peter Zumthor on plans for rebuilding the eastern section of the campus from the two new Renzo Piano buildings. In 2017, in the West LACMA campus, built in 1939 as a store (May Company Building) will be opened the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures. The project was developed by Renzo Piano and local architect Zoltan Pali.

In the immediate vicinity to the future museum are located two buildings that have been upgraded on projects Piano in the first and second phase of the Transformation. In 2004 LACMA embarked on its multiphase Transformation. This ambitious capital campaign expanded, upgraded, and unified the museum’s 20-acre campus through the addition of new buildings, beautifully reinstalled permanent-collection galleries, and the acquisition of monumental, destination artworks.

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Materials provided by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) and the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures