Hancock Park is a city park in the Miracle Mile section of the Mid-Wilshire neighborhood in Los Angeles, California.
Hancock Park, with tar pits and LACMA
People enjoying Hancock Park (1978)
George C. Page Museum of La Brea Discoveries in the park
Fossil miners at work. 1911
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art is an art museum located on Wilshire Boulevard in the Miracle Mile vicinity of Los Angeles. LACMA is on Museum Row, adjacent to the La Brea Tar Pits.
Hancock Park
…Pits; the adjacent George C. Page Museum of La Brea Discoveries, which displays the fossils of Ice Age prehistoric mammals from the tar pits; and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) complex. They are among the most popular tourist attractions in Los Angeles. In 1939, the Federal Writers' Project American Guide to Los Angeles…
Museum pavilion, 2014, prior to demolition
Wilshire Boulevard and the Art Museum in 1965
Former LACMA parking garage mural by Barry McGee
Former LACMA parking garage mural by Margaret Kilgallen (2000)