LACMA offers a variety of public programs for all audiences.

Schedule of Public Programs

The Education Department offers permanent collection and special exhibition programming throughout the year, which includes exhibition brochures, audio tours, family gallery guides, talks, symposia, art courses for children and adults, documentary film and video series, family programming, and specialized school and community outreach programs.

The Film Department celebrates the international art of cinema, past and present, with thematic film series, retrospectives and tributes devoted to the work of the art form's greatest practitioners. LACMA also previews new studio, independent and foreign films.

LACMA's Department of Music Programs, six-time national winner of the ASCAP/Chamber Music America Award for Adventurous Programming, annually presents over one hundred concerts featuring leading international and local ensembles in programs that cover classical, jazz, Latin and new music. LACMA's Music Programs include the long-running Sundays Live and Friday Night Jazz, along with new series Latin Sounds and Art & Music.

Education Department

Adult Programming is offered for the general public and specialized audiences which includes Talks, Conversations with Artists, Special Exhibition Lectures, and documentary film and video series. In addition, the Director's Series: Conversations with Michael Govan and the Masters of Architecture lecture series are offered at various times throughout the year. 

Children under the age of 18 can become members of Arts for NexGen LACMA, a free membership program that includes an array of programs designed just for kids, including NexGen Family Sundays, presenting artist-led workshops and bilingual tours of the collection, and Target Free Holiday Mondays, featuring special programs on selected school holidays. 

LACMA’s art class program offers studio classes for children as young as 3 1/2 with their parents or caregivers, and children on their own starting at age 6, as well as seasonal art camps.

Adult studio and art history courses are offered in conjunction with special exhibitions and the museum's permanent collection. Programs for teens include specially designed classes and After Dark, which presents exhibition openings exclusively for teenagers.

Teachers can participate in LACMA’s professional development program, Evenings for Educators, held at the museum six evenings a year, or sign up their classes for docent- or teacher-led tours of the museum’s permanent collection or special exhibitions. In addition, curriculum material resources for educators are available online. School outreach programs and Art Programs with the Community outreach are also available and provide unique art experiences relating to the museum’s permanent collection. Please view Places, a project of the Education Department at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

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