Petersen Automotive Museum

The Petersen Automotive Museum is an automobile museum located on Wilshire Boulevard along Museum Row in the Miracle Mile neighborhood of . One of the world's largest collections, the Petersen Automotive Museum is a nonprofit organization specializing in automobile history and related educational programs.
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  • Opening hours: 10:00 AM—6:00 PM
  • Email: info@petersen.org
  • Type: Museum
  • Description: museum in Los Angeles, CA
  • Address: 6060 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90036

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Academy Museum of Motion Pictures.

Museum
Photo: Carol M. Highsmith, Public domain.
The is an art museum located on Wilshire Boulevard in the Miracle Mile vicinity of Los Angeles. LACMA is on Museum Row, adjacent to the . is situated 870 feet northeast of Petersen Automotive Museum.

Museum
Photo: Carol M. Highsmith, Public domain.
The is a film museum that opened in 2021 located in , California, United States on . The first large-scale museum of its kind in the United States, it houses part of the Academy Collection, the largest… is situated 470 feet north of Petersen Automotive Museum.

Photo: Dschwen, CC BY-SA 2.5.
The constitute an active paleontological research site located in urban , California, United States. was established around a cluster of tar pits formed by natural asphalt that has continuously seeped upward from the ground for tens of thousands of years.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Carthay and Little Ethiopia.

Neighborhood
is a half-square-mile neighborhood in Central Los Angeles, California. It contains Circle, Square and South . There are three Los Angeles Historic Preservation Overlay Zones in .

Neighborhood
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is a neighborhood in the central region of . It is known for its collection of Ethiopian restaurants, coffee shops, boutiques and thrift stores.

Neighborhood
is an apartment community in the Miracle Mile District of , developed by the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company in 1944.

Petersen Automotive Museum

Latitude
34.06235° or 34° 3′ 45″ north
Longitude
-118.36119° or 118° 21′ 40″ west
Elevation
167 feet (51 metres)
Inception
June 11th, 1994
Height
91 feet (28 metres)
Operator
Petersen Automotive Museum Foundation
Named after
Robert E. Petersen
Open location code
85633J6Q+WG
Open­Street­Map ID
way 913343446
Open­Street­Map feature
building=­museum
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­museum
Geo­Names ID
5382299
Wiki­data ID
Q2358105
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Urdu—“Petersen Automotive Museum” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Petersen Automotive Museum”
  • Arabic: “متحف بيترسن للسيارات”
  • Arabic: “متحف بيترسون للسيارات”
  • Catalan: “Petersen Automotive Museum”
  • Chinese: “彼得森汽車博物館”
  • Dutch: “Petersen Automotive Museum”
  • Finnish: “Petersen Automotive Museum”
  • French: “Petersen Automotive Museum”
  • German: “Petersen Automotive Museum”
  • Hebrew: “מוזיאון פיטרסן”
  • Italian: “Petersen Automotive Museum”
  • Japanese: “ピーターセン自動車博物館”
  • Korean: “피터슨 자동차 박물관”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Petersen Automotive Museum”
  • Norwegian: “Petersen Automotive Museum”
  • Persian: “موزه خودروی پیترسن”
  • Portuguese: “Museu Automotivo Petersen”
  • Portuguese: “Petersen Automotive Museum”
  • Russian: “Petersen Automotive Museum”
  • Spanish: “Petersen Automotive Museum”
  • Swedish: “Petersen Automotive Museum”
  • Urdu: “پیٹرسن آٹو موٹیو میوزیم”

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