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Armand Hammer Museum

The Hammer Museum

The Hammer Museum is internationally recognized as one of the country’s foremost university art museum. A true cultural center for the Los Angeles UCLA communities, the museum presents special exhibitions on the art of our time/renowned permanent collection, and stimulating public programs.

“one of the city’s hottest cultural attractions, with a keen eye for emerging artistic talent”

-The New York Times

Armand Hammer Museum at corner of Wilshire and Westwood boulevard

Museum entrance on Wilshire boulevard

Curt Yard

Exhibitions

The hammer museum presents an active exhibition program featuring contemporary and historical work in all media including video, architecture, and design. A special focus is placed on exhibition that introduce reinterpret the work of under-recognized artist on eras. In addition, the ongoing series of Hammer Projects reflects the Museum’s commitment to contemporary art by providing emerging artists an opportunity to create new work or to present existing work in a new context. Insightful public program by and curators accompany all exhibitions.

Collections

Founded by Dr. Armand Hammer in 1990, the Hammer Museum houses several collections of art. The Armand Hammer collection of old Masters, Impressionist, and Post-Impressionist, paintings includes important examples of work by Mary Cassatt, Vincent Van Gogh, Claude Monet,, Rembrandt van Rijn, and John Singer Sergeant.

The Armand Hammer Museum and Contemporaries Collection features the paintings, sculpture, drawing, and print of 19^th-century French satirist Honore Daumier and his contemporaries. The Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts contains over 45,000 works on paper, including prints, drawings, photographs and artists’ book dating from the Renaissance to the present. The Museum also manages the Frank D. Murphy Sculpture Garden. One of the most distinguished outdoor sculpture collections in the country, encompassing more than five acres on the UCLA campus.