The Los Angeles County Museum of Art was established as a museum in 1961 and is the largest art museum in the western United States. Originally part of the Los Angeles Museum of History, Science and Art, founded in 1910, it became its own separate, art-focused institution which opened to the public in 1965 located on Wilshire Boulevard. Since then, both the campus and the collection has grown and changed, with the addition of new buildings, acquisitions, bequests and works of art. Most recently, earlier this year, the David Geffen Galleries opened to house LACMA's permanent collection. This lecture will give an overview of the history of the museum formation and the highlights of its collection, as well as a look at the new galleries that cross Wilshire Boulevard.

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