Chinese American Museum
The Chinese American Museum is a museum located in Downtown Los Angeles as a part of the El Pueblo de Los Angeles Historic Monument. It is dedicated to the history and experience of Chinese Americans in the state of California, the first such museum in Southern California.Photo: Geographer, CC BY 2.5.
- Opening hours: Friday—Sunday 10:00 AM—3:00 PM
- Type: Museum
- Description: museum in Los Angeles, California, United States
- Also known as: “CAMLA”, “Chinese American Museum Los Angeles”, and “Chinese American Museum, Los Angeles”
- Address: 425 North Los Angeles Street, Los Angeles, CA 90012
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Los Angeles City Hall and LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes.
Los Angeles City Hall
Town hall
Photo: Brion VIBBER, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Los Angeles City Hall, completed in 1928, is the center of the government of the city of Los Angeles, California, and houses the mayor's office and the meeting chambers and offices of the Los Angeles City Council. Los Angeles City Hall is situated 1,300 feet southwest of Chinese American Museum.
LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes
Museum
Photo: Ken Lund, CC BY-SA 2.0.
LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes, also called LA Plaza, is a Mexican-American museum and cultural center in Los Angeles, California, USA that opened in April 2011.
Union Station
Railway station
Photo: David Wilson, CC BY 2.0.
Los Angeles Union Station is the main railroad station in Los Angeles, California, and the largest passenger rail terminal in the Western United States. Union Station is situated 1,500 feet east of Chinese American Museum.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Civic Center and Naud Junction.
Civic Center
Quarter
Photo: Brion VIBBER, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Civic Center district of Downtown Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, is the administrative core of the City of Los Angeles, County of Los Angeles, and a complex of city, county, state, and federal government offices, buildings, and courthouses.
Naud Junction
Locality
Naud Junction was an area in northern Downtown Los Angeles, California. It was located at the junction of Main Street and Alameda Street, where Southern Pacific Railroad trains veered off Alameda to tracks along Alhambra Avenue and the Los Angeles River.
Little Tokyo
Quarter
Photo: Bobak, CC BY-SA 2.5.
Little Tokyo, also known as Little Tokyo Historic District, is an ethnically Japanese American district in downtown Los Angeles and the heart of the largest Japanese-American population in North America.
Chinese American Museum
- Categories: tourism and tourist attraction
- Location: Los Angeles, Southern California, California, United States, North America
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Latitude
34.05571° or 34° 3′ 21″ northLongitude
-118.23921° or 118° 14′ 21″ westElevation
295 feet (90 metres)Open location code
85633Q46+78OpenStreetMap ID
node 2406454289OpenStreetMap feature
tourism=museum
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Yue Chinese—“Chinese American Museum” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “華美博物館”
- Indonesian: “Museum Tionghoa Amerika”
- Yue Chinese: “華美博物館”
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