{"id":12262,"date":"2020-01-25T05:59:30","date_gmt":"2020-01-25T13:59:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/hi-lo\/?p=30000006576"},"modified":"2020-01-26T08:49:00","modified_gmt":"2020-01-26T16:49:00","slug":"today-you-should-museum-the-day-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/hi-lo\/today-you-should-museum-the-day-away","title":{"rendered":"Today, you should&#8230; museum the day away"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>SATURDAY, JAN. 25<\/h3>\n<p>You know, there are some days that one just needs to museum. You\u2019re wanting, needing, craving a bit of beauty, knowledge or culture; an itch that sometimes only a museum can scratch. How lucky are you that today is Museums-Free-For-All, an annual event put together by SoCal Museums, which seeks to remind people of the great fun it is to go to a museum and the fact that most museums have some kind of ongoing free admission program of their very own.<\/p>\n<p>Today, there will be more than 40 museums offering free general admission; you\u2019ll still have to pay for special ticketed events as well as parking. Always parking.<\/p>\n<p>None of the museums in Long Beach are participating in this\u2014 though each of them do have their own free admission programs\u2014so you\u2019re going to have to make a day of it, i.e. drive. We suggest planning ahead. Fortunately, there\u2019s plenty to plan from.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re looking for a big, wide-swath experience, you\u2019ve got your LA County Museum of Art, a couple of Gettys, the Hammer, etc. If you\u2019re looking for a niche, there\u2019s the American Museum of Ceramic Art, the Craft Contemporary, the Automobile Driving Museum, etc. Something for the kids? There\u2019s Kidspace Children\u2019s Museum, Cayton Children\u2019s Museum, etc. Looking for some knowledge? There\u2019s LA County Natural History as well as the La Brea Tar Pits, California Science Center, etc. Looking for insights into specific cultures? There\u2019s California African American Museum, La Plaza de Cultura y Artes, Japanese American National Museum, etc.<\/p>\n<p>And there\u2019s a lot more.<\/p>\n<p>We suggest you take advantage and museum the heck out of the day.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Another great thing:<\/strong> This includes gardens: Descanso, Getty, Rancho Santa Ana\u2026<\/p>\n<p><strong>Giving us a moment\u2019s pause:<\/strong> So much museum.<\/p>\n<p><em>Museums-Free-For-All takes place Saturday. For all participating museums, click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.socalmuseums.org\/free-for-all\/\">here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of SoCal museums annual Museums-Free-For-All event, over 40 museums are offering free general admission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":241,"featured_media":70812,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","inline_featured_image":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":"","_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"_":"","_author_alias":"","cap-aim":"","cap-description":"","cap-display_name":"","cap-first_name":"","cap-jabber":"","cap-last_name":"","cap-linked_account":"","cap-newspack_employer":"","cap-newspack_job_title":"","cap-newspack_phone_number":"","cap-newspack_role":"","cap-user_email":"","cap-user_login":"","cap-website":"","cap-yahooim":"","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_email_html":"","newspack_email_type":"","newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_hide_page_title":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_show_share_buttons":"","newspack_sponsor_byline_prefix":"","newspack_sponsor_disclaimer_override":"","newspack_sponsor_flag_override":"","newspack_sponsor_only_direct":"","newspack_sponsor_url":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7950],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"coauthors":[2890],"class_list":["post-12262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hi-lo","tag-do-this","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/241"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12262\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12262"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=12262"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=12262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}