TODAY @ CAAM – Exposition Park
CAMM is pleased to present
600 State Dr, Los Angeles, CA 90037, USA
ABOUT CAAM
The California African American Museum‘s mission is to research, collect, preserve, and interpret for public enrichment the history, art, and culture of African Americans with an emphasis on California and the western United States.
Founded in 1977, CAAM has a long and rich history. The first African American museum of art, history, and culture fully supported by a state, CAAM was the direct result of a sustained, multiyear campaign of activism undertaken by visionary founders and community members. Its creation was an early and tangible recognition by the State of California of the critically important role African Americans have played in the American West’s cultural, economic, and political development.
CAAM’s permanent collection consists of over 5,000 objects ranging from the 1800s to the present. It encompasses paintings, photographs, film, sculpture, historical documents, and artifacts, and it spans nineteenth-century landscape paintings to modern artworks to contemporary mixed-media reflections on cultural and political events. The Museum’s first acquisitions included a bronze bust of civil rights activist Dr. Mary Mcleod Bethune by artist Richmond Barthé and a sculpture by artist Maren Hassinger, then at the start of her career. These laid the perfect groundwork for CAAM’s mandate to assemble a comprehensive, thoughtful, and wide-reaching collection.
CAAM’s deepest holdings include art made or connected to African Americans in California and the western United States. However, the Museum also has significant works of contemporary art from the African diaspora (including Haiti, Brazil, and Jamaica), as well as traditional African art from Western, Central, and Sub-Saharan Africa. CAAM aims to represent the diverse contributions of African Americans in the United States, but also to interpret how the past has affected identity in the present.
VISIT
The California African American Museum is located in the heart of Los Angeles, just steps away from USC, the California Science Center, and the Natural History Museum. We are accessible by car, bus, and Metro rail line. Admission, exhibitions, programs, and events are always free and open to the public.
Driving and Parking
If you are driving, CAAM is at the corner of Figueroa Street and Exposition Boulevard, just west of the 110 Freeway. Please note that our parking lot entrance is at 39th and Figueroa Streets. Please put that cross-section into your maps search or GPS device.
Parking in Exposition Park is $15 during the day; $18 after 5 pm.
Bus and Rail
For directions to get to CAAM via bus or rail, please visit www.metro.net.
CAAM and Exposition Park are serviced by the Metro Expo Line in the light rail system. Our station is Expo Park/USC.
You can also call for route information and general service questions at 1-800-COMMUTE (1-800-266-6883).
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