UCLA and Westwood Village: Museums

Royce Quadrangle

Dickson Plaza
Tel (310) 825-2101, daily

The four buildings that make up the Royce Quadrangle are the oldest on UCLA’s campus in Westwood. Built of red brick in the Italian Romanesque style, Royce, Kinsey, and Haines halls, and Powell Library far surpass the other buildings at UCLA in beauty.

The best of them all is Royce Hall, which is based on the basilica of San Ambrogio in Milan, Italy. Its auditorium hosts professional music, dance, and theater shows throughout the year. Next door, Powell Library’s grand rotunda was modeled on San Sepolcro in Bologna, Italy.

UCLA at the Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center

10899 Wilshire Blvd.
Tel (310) 443-7000
Timing: 11am–7pm Tue, Wed, Fri, Sat; 11am–9pm Thu; 11am–5pm Sun.
WEB: www.hammer.ucla.edu

The museum presents selections from the collection of businessman Armand Hammer (1899–1990). Works are largely Impressionist or Post-Impressionist by artists such as Mary Cassatt (1845–1926), Claude Monet (1840–1926), Camille Pissarro (1830–1903), John Singer Sargent (1856–1925), and Vincent Van Gogh (1853–90).
Exhibits from the Armand Hammer Daumier and Contemporaries Collection are also shown on a rotating basis and include paintings, sculptures, and lithographs by Daumier and his contemporaries. Displays are also drawn from the UCLA Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, which holds more than 35,000 works on paper dating from the Renaissance to the present day.

Fowler Museum of Cultural History
Tel (310) 825-4361
Timing: noon–5pm

This university museum is committed to enriching the community’s understanding of other cultures. Its exhibitions focus on the prehistoric, historic, and contemporary societies of Africa, Asia, the Americas, and Oceania. The collection of 750,000 artifacts makes it one of the nation’s leading university museums.