A wonderful little museum with lots of amazing displays. We came to see a specific exhibit that turned out to be smaller than expected but that was more than made up for by the other unexpected treasures. Rest rooms, gift shop. No café, but a short walk to the main street gets you many options.

If your a college student looking for something to do on campus look no further. Friendly staff and great environment. Exhibits change every semester so there is always something new to see. Plus its free. The museum also host other events so its good to stop by and see if there is something going on you might be interested in.

The employees are very friendly

Always have great art exhibits!! Go check it out!! You wont regret it.

It was full of things Id never seen before.

Quiet, clean, restrooms and drinking water available

Amazing place

Nice Museum on LB campus

This museum apparently has a very good arts administration program for students. How do I know this? Several years ago, I chanced upon the museum at a fortuitous time: 1) Lou Reed, who had recently died, I believe, had a sonic/accoustic sort of sound room that I was able to enter with with a pal who is a retired Hollywood sound engineer; 2) Babette Mangolte, who has done some camera work for, among others, Jean Pierre Gorin and, I believe, Chantal Akerman, was not only hung--her work, folks, not her....--but also supported by the aforementioned museum administrators in training, who handed out white gloves that had to be used to finger Ms. Mangoltes work. O.K. That was a bit much for me. And the best of her nude NYC art happenings photography work from the seventies as photography at that particular exhibit is not my favorite homage to Marcel DuChamps Nude Descending a Staircase. But guess what? Mangoltes work was well placed. It was not only right around the corner from the Lou Reed sound cave, but also near some interesting photographs of places in or near decay. There was a haunting photograph of a piano of Elviss at Graceland at the museum right between Lou Reeds sound room and the Mangolte exhibit. A grand or a baby grand. With real Tennessee light. And a bad carpet. Just like some of the Kings hair dos sometimes. In any case, I was reminded of the beauty of that shot of Elviss piano when I saw a shot or two that would make magnificent movie stills from Robert DuValles and Robert Downey, Jr.s recent The Judge. DuValle meets Downey, Jr. in an Indiana funeral home near the beginning of the movie. There is a shot of a casket in the back that is DuValles wife and Downey, Jrs Mother and some funereal flower arrangements and one character who knows both the Father--played by DuValle--and his son--played by Downey, Jr.--going out of a door to the left of the frame as the viewer watches. Boy. That light and those flowers and that casket and the scenario had everything to do with Elvis in this University Art Museum at Cal State Long Beach the day I was there and then some. And as for nudes descending a staircase, there was some apt still motion kind of photography. Of a figure showing and not showing through wood slats. Amazing stuff. And in the back of the museum was great conceptual art. The best, in fact, because not at all intended: A small, glass room encased mini-library of catalogues of past exhibits at this museum and at others and a computer at which one can access the visual arts. A repository of art that was unvisited. Empty computer just like Elviss piano was empty; just like Lou Reed was recently deceased and reminiscent now as I write this of the coffin in The Judge. A museum within a museum. A hall of mirrors of fun shows former and future. So now go and see!...Not just it. But all of them. The works and the artists. And, if you get hungry or thirsty, there is an excellent student coffee and sandwich place right around the corner. And there is plenty of disabled parking and it is close to the museum and to the student outdoor cafe.

Beautiful