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Craft & Folk Art Museum

This gallery, housed in a prominent Museum Row building, has grown into one of the city's largest. "Craft and folk art" encompasses everything from clothing, tools, religious artifacts, and other everyday objects to wood carvings, papier-mâché, weaving, and metalwork. The museum displays folk objects from around the world, but its strongest collection is masks from India, America, Mexico, Japan, and China. The museum is also known for its annual International Festival of Masks, held each October in Hancock Park, across the street. Be sure to stop in the funky, eclectic Museum Shop to peruse the wearable art, folk art books, and various crafts.

5814 Wilshire Blvd.Phone: 323/937-4230.Open: Museum exhibits: Wed-Sun 11am-5pm; Museum Shop Tues-Sun 11am-5pm.Admission $3.50 adults, $2.50 seniors and students, free for children under age 12, free to all the 1st Wed each month.


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