The full-on museum doesn’t open until later this year, but for Free-for-All, it’s doing a Saturday pop-up on the west side of LACMA’s campus from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., “rain or shine.” The museum has said that activities will include a wheel you can spin to win prizes including free museum memberships. Get a selfie with that cool sphere! (Saturday only)

The Armory is both a host to contemporary art exhibitions and a community arts education hub. Right now, see work on display from Sara Kathryn Arledge, an “under-recognized painter and innovator of mid-20th century experimental cinema.” (Saturday and Sunday; gallery always free)

This museum not only preserves classic cars, it offers you a chance to ride in them every week. Swing by on Sunday for your chance to cruise in a 1926 Pontiac 2-Door Coach or a 1932 Buick Victoria. (Saturday and Sunday)

The Bowers Museum’s specialty is art from around the world, and on view now are exhibits of expertly carved gemstones, art from the Pacific Islands, and paintings of California made between 1850 and 1930. The Bowers also has a “Kidseum,” a museum for children with hands-on activities that’s open on weekends. (Sunday only)

This museum is hard to miss if you’re driving on Bunker Hill. The dynamic building, designed by the firm Diller Scofidio + Renfro, houses works from the private collection of Eli and Edythe Broad, which are mainly postwar and contemporary pieces. Finally get that picture in a Yayoi Kusama infinity room! (Saturday and Sunday; always free; advance tickets recommended)

Located in the cultural hub of Exposition Park, CAAM focuses on African American art, history and culture, but with a special emphasis on the West Coast and in California. Check out exhibitions on the Los Angeles Freedom Rally in 1963 and multi-media works by Houston-born artist Robert Pruitt. (Saturday and Sunday; always free)

The Columbia Memorial Space Center is “a hands-on learning center dedicated to bringing the wonder and excitement of science and innovation to audiences of all ages and backgrounds” that honors Downey’s aerospace history.

The museum is on the site that for decades housed a plant where NASA spaceships—vehicles that first took American astronauts to the moon—were built. (Saturday only)

Craft Contemporary (formerly known as the Craft and Folk Art Museum) has held exhibits on ceramics, bookmaking arts, papercraft, shoe design, and even tiny houses. The museum, located on Miracle Mile, has a fantastic gift shop, too. (Saturday and Sunday)

Beautiful Descanso Gardens boasts 160 acres of flora, including flowers that are probably in bloom right now. There’s also a gorgeous restaurant and a one-eighth-scale replica train. Free online tickets are encouraged for quicker entry. (Saturday only)

The Fowler Museum focuses on “global arts,” especially those from Africa, Asia, the Pacific, and the Americas. Current exhibits include “World on the Horizon: Swahili Arts Across the Indian Ocean,” and another on Second Lines—or Sunday brass band parades in New Orleans. (Saturday and Sunday; always free)

This modern and contemporary art museum is a showcase for the personal collection of the late Frederick Weisman. The museum is housed in a 1920s Holmby Hills villa designed by Gordon B. Kaufmann, the architect behind the Hollywood Palladium and the Earl Carroll Theatre. (Saturday and Sunday)

The Getty museum is really an indoor-outdoor experience. Once you make it up the hill (on a tram!), you’re rewarded with views and lots of outdoor space to sit and rest. Oh yes, and all that art. (Saturday and Sunday; always free)

The soon-to-be-expanding Hammer Museum in Westwood focuses on contemporary art in a range of mediums. Right now, the museum has an exhibit on view of recent additions to their collection, like this multi-media piece by Njideka Akunyili Crosby. (Saturday and Sunday; always free)

Formerly known as the Santa Monica Museum of Art, ICALA opened in the fall in an Arts District space near the Greyhound bus station, and features revolving exhibits of contemporary works by international artists. The museum’s new space was designed by architecture firm wHY. (Saturday and Sunday; always free)

This Little Tokyo museum is all about the Japanese American experience, looking at the past as well as the present and future.

A current exhibit looks at photos of Japanese-Americans who were forcibly placed in internment camps during World War II in contemporary and historic photos—a kind of “then and now” approach. Free tickets for entry are available here. (Saturday only)

The Miracle Mile Tar Pits are a great hangout space and offer a look at some truly old LA history—fossils of dire wolves and mammoths taken from asphalt deposits up to 40,000 years old. Free general admission tickets are available here. (Saturday only)

Founded in 1978, this Hollywood Boulevard nonprofit venue hosts exhibits and performances and maintains archives of 40 years of LACE-related material. On view right now: “Take My Money / Take My Body,” which looks at K-Pop as ways to look closer at “the promises of popular media within highly bureaucratic, surveilled, and macro-scaled communities.” (Saturday and Sunday; gallery always free)

Located in tony Laguna Beach, this museum is currently hosting a retrospective of work from Self-Help Graphics, an arts non-profit now based in Boyle Heights that began as a printshop in East LA during the early years of the Chicano Movement. (Saturday and Sunday)

LACMA offers a vast selection of art housed in multiple buildings, including one with a giant elevator featuring a piece by Barbara Kruger. The architecture is another bit of eye-candy, and there’s also a sculpture garden. (Saturday only)

This museum’s focus is pretty self-explanatory, but it offers surprising tidbits about this dark period in world history. (Saturday and Sunday; always free)

This Spanish Colonial Revival estate houses a cultural center that hosts live performances, exhibitions, and classes. (It also seems to be an incredibly popular wedding venue.) In the gallery now is a show of work from high school students in Fullerton. (Sunday only)

The nation’s only museum dedicated to modern and contemporary art from Latin America is currently hosting an exhibit on Chicana muralist and artist Judithe Hernández. (Sunday only)

The Museum of Tolerance is “dedicated to challenging visitors to understand the Holocaust in both historic and contemporary contexts and confront all forms of prejudice and discrimination in our world today,” says a summary on the Free-for-All site.

There’s an exhibit devoted to the Holocaust, another about Anne Frank, and interactive exhibits touching on the civil rights struggle in America and human rights around the world. (Sunday only)

The Natural History Museum has a spectacular garden, a giant whale skeleton suspended in an enormous glass enclosure that can be seen from the street, and a hands-on area where kids (and adults!) can learn about all the fauna that call LA home, from big gross bugs to rats and opossums.

The museum is offering free general admission and recommends reserving tickets in advance. Tickets can be reserved here. (Sunday only)

It’s a bit of a drive, but who doesn’t love Palm Springs? On exhibit here is “Unselttled,” described as a “sweeping presentation of contemporary art by more than 75 artists living or working in the Greater West.” (Sunday only)

Located in quiet, quaint Claremont, this art museum is on a college campus and has on view an installation by Courtney M. Leonard of the Shinnecock Nation. There’s also Andy Warhol prints and much more. (Saturday and Sunday)

This Pomona Valley botanical garden is a great place to amble around on a mild day. There’s a good gift shop and picnic tables out front (you cannot bring in your picnic). (Saturday only)

The natural history museum is in downtown Santa Barbara but the Sea Center sits right on the historic Stearns Wharf and offers hands-on exhibits and ocean views. (Saturday only)

The Skirball Center describes itself as “a place of meeting guided by the Jewish tradition of welcoming the stranger and inspired by the American democratic ideals of freedom and equality.”

Those hoping to visit the attraction Noah’s Ark, take note: According to the Free-For-All website, “Noah’s Ark timed-entry, one-hour tickets are limited and distributed first-come, first-served.” (Sunday only)

Sunnylands contains a lovely, 15,000-square-foot A. Quincy Jones-designed home that was built for Ambassador Walter and Leonore Annenberg. As such, it hosted foreign dignitaries and leaders foreign and domestic, including former presidents.

Now, it’s a kind of cultural and educational center and garden space with walking paths and desert landscaping. (Saturday and Sunday)

The Pacific Asia Museum is actually in Pasadena, not near USC. It’s focused on promoting the arts and culture of Asia and the Pacific Islands. A current exhibit explores the “heretofore unexamined influence of Mexican art and artists on the development of art in China in the twentieth century.” (Both Saturday and Sunday)

This awesome museum, located in two airport hangars, has a huge collection of cool, nostalgic items and lumps everything all together in the best way. Rare historic photos and documents from the San Fernando Valley’s past are displayed alongside Valley-made vintage BMX bikes. (Sunday only)

This repository of incredible Cold War-era artifacts from the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe only recently moved into its new home in an old Culver City armory. On view now: Russian poster designs of the 1980s and early ’90s, (Saturday only; always free)