14 Facts About Hammer Museum

Hammer Museum, which is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles, is an art museum and cultural center known for its artist-centric and progressive array of exhibitions and public programs.

In 2010 the Hammer Museum announced its inaugural biennial devoted exclusively to Los Angeles artists.

Hammer Museum manages five distinct collections: The Hammer Contemporary Collection; the collection of the UCLA Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts; the Franklin D Murphy Sculpture Garden; the Armand Hammer Collection, and the Armand Hammer Daumier and Contemporaries Collection.

In 2012, the Hammer Museum showcased selections from the Susan and Larry Marx Collection.

Honore Daumier and Contemporaries Collection at the Hammer Museum is one of the most important collections of Daumier works outside France.

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Since 2010, the Hammer Museum has partnered with the radio station KCRW to host an annual outdoor summer concert series.

In conjunction with the inaugural Made in L A exhibition in 2012, the Hammer offered the first iteration of the prestigious Mohn Award.

In 2014 the Hammer announced it was offering three awards in conjunction with Made in L A 2014: The Mohn Award, the Career Achievement Award ($25, 000)—both of which are selected by a professional jury—and the Public Recognition Award ($25, 000), which is awarded by popular vote among exhibition visitors.

Shortly thereafter, on January 21, 1988, Hammer announced plans to build his own museum on the site of a Westwood parking garage adjacent to the Occidental headquarters.

The pedestrian bridge, named in honor of John V Tunney, longtime Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Hammer Museum, connects the upper level galleries over the Hammer Courtyard.

Hammer Museum served in that position until his retirement in 1998.

At the Hammer Museum, 2010 attendance was an estimated 175, 000, up from 150, 000 in 2009.

In 1994, the Hammer Museum made headlines by selling Leonardo da Vinci's Codex Leicester to Microsoft founder Bill Gates for $30.

The Hammer Museum instead sold the 72-page scientific notebook to fund the museum's exhibitions and programs.