Petersen Automotive Museum
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Petersen Automotive Museum is a museum in California, at a recorded elevation of 75 m. Mount Deception stands 1,767 m to the northeast, 19 miles off. The nearest named place is Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, a museum 0.1 miles away. Arroyo Seco Historic Parkway - Route 110 passes 6.4 miles off.
The story
The Petersen Automotive Museum is an automobile museum located on Wilshire Boulevard along Museum Row in the Miracle Mile neighborhood of Los Angeles. 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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Dates from 1994.
Wikidata Q2358105, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Built
- 1994-06-11
- Height
- 27.8 m
- Elevation
- 75.3 m
What to expect
- Operated by
- Petersen Automotive Museum Foundation
How to reach it
- 6.4 mi off the Arroyo Seco Historic Parkway - Route 110, National
Overlooks nearby
- Point Grandview · 8 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Academy Museum of Motion Pictures: 0.1 mi
- Broad Contemporary Art Museum: 0.1 mi
- Los Angeles County Museum of Art: 0.2 mi
- La Brea Tar Pits and Museum: 0.3 mi
- Craft Contemporary: 0.3 mi
- Urban Light: 0.1 mi
- Smoke: 0.2 mi
- Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Sculpture Garden: 0.2 mi
- Levitated Mass: 0.2 mi
- G. Allan Hancock: 0.3 mi
- Berlin Wall Segments - Wall Project: 0.2 mi
- Edmund D. Edelman: 0.3 mi
- Portolá Trail 1769: 0.9 mi
- Babij Yar Massacre Memorial: 2.2 mi
- WWII Soviet Army Veterans Memorial: 2.2 mi
- Observation Pit: 0.2 mi
- Pit 13: 0.2 mi
- Pit 91: 0.2 mi
- Project 23: 0.2 mi
- Pits 3, 4, 61, 67: 0.2 mi
- Hancock Park: 0.3 mi
- Carthay Circle Park: 0.4 mi
- Wilshire Green Park: 0.4 mi
- Lower Carthay Circle Park: 0.4 mi
- Pan Pacific Park: 0.9 mi
- Pleistocene Garden: 0.3 mi
- Funkmeyer New Reality Garden: 1.6 mi
- Spanish Garden: 2.9 mi
- Italian Rose Garden: 3.0 mi
- Rose Garden: 3.0 mi
- MRCA Open Space: 3.0 mi
- MRCA Open Space: 3.4 mi
- LADWP Open Space: 3.5 mi
- MRCA Open Space: 3.7 mi
- La Brea Green Belt: 3.7 mi
- Baldwin Hills: 3.3 mi
- Briar Summit: 4.4 mi
- Olive Hill: 4.6 mi
- Maltman peak: 5.0 mi
- Burbank Peak: 5.4 mi
- Lake Side: 3.6 mi
- Garden Grove: 3.7 mi
- Blue Lagoon: 3.8 mi
- Burke-Roche Picnic Area: 3.9 mi
- Picnic Central: 3.9 mi
- Temescal Falls: 10.0 mi
- Santa Ynez Falls: 12.1 mi
- Brown Mountain Dam Waterfall: 15.9 mi
- Millard Falls: 16.6 mi
- Royal Falls: 17.1 mi
- Mother's Beach: 7.8 mi
- Palisades Beach: 9.1 mi
- Will Rogers State Beach: 11.1 mi
- El Segundo Beach: 11.1 mi
- Castle Rock Beach: 11.7 mi
- Kuruvungna Springs: 5.7 mi
- Siutcanga Spring(LA River source): 10.4 mi
- Eagle Spring: 12.2 mi
- Goldenrod Spring: 15.9 mi
- Fascination Spring: 16.0 mi
- Upper Switzer Falls Grotto: 17.9 mi
- Porter Ranch Palisades: 18.8 mi
- Porter Ranch Palisades: 19.2 mi
- Porter Ranch Palisades: 19.3 mi
- Malibu Bluffs: 19.7 mi
- Spa Palace: 5.3 mi
- Point Fermin Lighthouse: 25.0 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 19.3 miles of Petersen Automotive Museum. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Deception | NE 47° | 1,767 m | 19.1 mi |
| Mount Markham | NE 51° | 1,746 m | 19.2 mi |
| Mount Lowe | NE 51° | 1,699 m | 18.7 mi |
| Mount Lukens | NNE 26° | 1,546.6 m | 15.9 mi |
| Condor Point | NNE 22° | 1,538.3 m | 19.3 mi |
| Muir Peak | NE 54° | 1,427 m | 18.2 mi |
| Brown Mountain | NE 45° | 1,363 m | 17.2 mi |
| Hoyt Mountain | NE 36° | 1,346 m | 17.8 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:58 | 18:32 | 19:05 |
| June solstice | 05:43 | 19:32 | 20:09 |
| September equinox | 06:42 | 18:19 | 18:52 |
| December solstice | 06:56 | 16:10 | 16:49 |
Local time (America/Los_Angeles).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: year-round.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 60 | 59 | 60 | 62 | 63 | 66 | 70 | 71 | 71 | 68 | 64 | 59 |
| Precip in | 4.1 | 4.7 | 2.7 | 0.8 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.7 | 1.0 | 2.9 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — U C L A, 5 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikipediaWikidataOfficial siteOpenStreetMap element way/913343446
Day trips start here
- Los Angeles/Wilshire · 2 mi
- West Hollywood · 2 mi
- Beverly Hills · 3 mi
- Los Angeles/Hollywood · 3 mi
- Los Angeles/West · 4 mi
- Culver City · 5 mi
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