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Sights and landmarks in Santa Monica

105 sights worth seeing in Santa Monica: landmarks, galleries, monuments and viewpoints.

Ranked with the travel guide's picks and well-known places first. Showing the top 40 of 105.

Bergamot Station Arts Center, Santa Monica
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Sights and landmarks in Santa Monica

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    Bergamot Station Arts Center

    Over 30 art galleries, including the Santa Monica Museum of Art.

    Mon 9AM-4PM, Tue-Fri 9AM-5PM, Sat 10AM-5PM (Individual galleries may have different hours)Free

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    Museum of Flying

    Centered around artifacts from the Douglas Aircraft Company, which used to manufacture iconic aircraft like the DC-3 at the Santa Monica Airport. It includes many aircraft in static display, from a replica Wright Flyer to World War II fighters to the microjet which appeared in the James Bond film Octopussy. "Rides" in a full-motion flight simulator are $8 each.

    Closed · opens 10 am tomorrowAdult $10

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    View Decks at Santa Monica Airport (KSMO)

    Open air-decks with picnic tables. Watch and photograph the airplanes as they come and go at the airport. Listen to Air Traffic Control on loudspeakers. Bring a picnic lunch. Also, Clover Park, at the corner of 25th Street and Ocean Park Boulevard, has a viewing area with a telescope focused on the runway.

    dawn-dusk, dailyFree

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    Eames House

    The Eames House (also known as Case Study House No. 8) is a historic house museum at 203 Chautauqua Boulevard in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, United States. Designed in the mid-century modern style, the house was constructed in 1949 by Eames Office designers Charles and Ray Eames for themselves.

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    Santa Monica

    Santa Monica (also known as Saint Monica) is an Art Deco sculpture by Eugene Morahan (1869–1949) installed in Santa Monica's Palisades Park, overlooking the Pacific Ocean in California.

    Built 1935

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    The Gables Beach Club Street Mosaic (former enterance)

    description:en=* street level, mosaic, of multi-colored, ceramic tiles for former ground level entrance of ocean front, "The Gables", beach club.

    Wheelchair accessible

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    Exuberant Birds: Parrot Pole

    https://locate.publicartarchive.org/art/Exuberant-Birds-Perching-Bird-Pole

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    California Heritage Museum

    2612 Main Street

    Closed · opens 11 am tomorrow

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    Ten Women Gallery

    2719 Main St

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    West Coaster

    380 Santa Monica Pier

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    Bruce Lurie Gallery

    608 Santa Monica Blvd

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    Camera Obscura Art Lab

    1450 Ocean Ave

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    Carousel Park

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    Cayton Children's Museum

    395 Santa Monica Pl Ste 374 Level 3

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    Dorado 806 Projects

    806 Broadway

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    Museum of Flying

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    Peter Fetterman Photographic

    2525 Michigan Ave Ste A1

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    Santa Monica History Museum

    1350 7th St

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    L.A. Art Exchange

    922 Santa Monica Blvd

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    Leslie Sacks Gallery

    2525 Michigan Ave

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    SMC's Pete and Susan Barrett Art Gallery

    1310 11th St

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    Saatchi Art

    1655 26th St # 100

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    Venice Institute of Contemporary Art

    536 Sunset Ave

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    Art Client Services

    1112 Montana Ave

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    Christopher Grimes Gallery

    916 Colorado Ave

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    Christopher John Gallery

    2928 Santa Monica Blvd

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    Kevin Barry Art Advisory

    2525 Michigan Ave

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    Latin American Masters

    2525 Michigan Ave Ste E2

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    M Hanks Gallery

    3008 Main St

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    bG Gallery

    2525 Michigan Ave #A2

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    Adamm's Stained Glass & Gallery

    1426 4th St

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    Art One Gallery

    1331 3rd Street Promenade

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    Beramont Station Galleries

    2525 Michigan Ave

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    Beyond The Lines Gallery

    2525 Michigan Ave

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    Copro Gallery

    2525 Michigan Avenue #T5

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    Dirt Beauty

    2401 Ashland Ave

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    Galerie XII Los Angeles

    2525 Michigan Ave

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    Gallery 169

    169 W Channel Rd

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    Gallery 612

    612 Santa Monica Blvd

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    Gallery KM

    2903 Santa Monica Blvd

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Listings from the Wikivoyage guide to Santa Monica (CC BY-SA 4.0). Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Place data from Overture Maps. Some descriptions from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).