Craft Contemporary, Art and crafts museum on Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, United States
Craft Contemporary is an art and crafts museum on Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles, dedicated to works made through handcraft techniques. The building dates from 1930 and holds several gallery floors along with a small museum shop.
The museum was founded in 1973 by artist Edith Robinson Wyle under the name Craft & Folk Art Museum. In 2018 it was renamed Craft Contemporary to reflect a sharper focus on contemporary work.
The galleries show works made from materials like clay, fiber, glass, and wood, where the hand of the maker is always visible in the finished piece. Walking through the space, visitors can follow how handmade processes are treated as a valid form of artistic expression today.
The museum sits on Wilshire Boulevard and is easy to reach by public transit. Opening hours vary by day, so checking before you go will help you plan your visit.
The museum's institutional archives, covering staff files from 1965 to 1997, were not kept on site: when the museum closed at the end of 1997, they went to the UCLA Young Research Library Special Collections. The permanent collection was sold at auction and the library passed to the L.A. County Museum of Art Research Library.
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