Very informative staff. Lots of relevant local history!

Friendly staff, some great exhibits and great price.

This place has some amazing facts...check it out

Very small but a free museum in SoCal. One main hall for any exhibition collection, the left room is for audio section, on your right there are many local artists. Here is a collection during June 2018 period.

One main hall for any exhibition collection, the left room is for audio section, on your right there are many local artists.

I enjoyed the gallery very much. I will be back. In April a new show will b open to the public. Jason was very nice and informative thank u.

I attended a retirement party for a member of the Community Services Division . Also got a chance to see the exhibit. Not a child-friendly display. Venue is good for a small gathering.

In the interest of honesty I should start my review by mentioning that I am an employee of the museums. But even if my paychecks didnt come from the city of Torrance I would still give TAM 5 stars. The institution focuses on contemporary art, in one large gallery, a second smaller one, a dark room ( generally used to show films), and a Darel Careytrompe-lœil tape installation in the main hallway (great for pictures).

Small gallery but very comfortable and well-presented.

Great little art gallery. There was one room with pieces from Californian artists. A larger space housed a selection of artists working on new paintings and sculptures.Excellent toilet facilities, plenty of parking and easy to find. Not sure if public transport is an option. All on one level and lots of space, easily accessible for wheelchair users.

I totally appreciate that art is in the eye of the beholder, and I have only been here about three times, but all three times I found the art not too interesting. Its a great place to take students who are required to do a review, or less mobile people as it is small and you wont be overwhelmed by choices of what to look at. Parking is not a problem either.

Very beautiful place

Unexpected stimulating, features international artists and a wide range of media. Significant work, well displayed, in a small, yet welcoming setting. Worth a visit, make it a habit!

Beautiful art pieces !!! Skulls theme .

It was very cool. I took my 8 year old sister and she also loved it. Would recommend.

Small local art museum. Never crowded gives you lots of time to look

Very interesting, but small place. Perfect to kill half an hour. The exhibition Ive attended had parental advisory sign, so coming with kids might be not the best option.

Free museum, interesting art work. They offer free workshops for children - look on their website. I wish the teacher who taught the childrens workshop didnt talk down to the kids so much, but I understand it may be difficult to lead a workshop for such a wide range of ages.

While the space is quite small, the exhibition was excellent. This particular artist Kang Seung Lee was amazingly interesting...I have never seen this one particular type of artistry before but they were almost like stretched 3 or 4 dimensional statues that were stunningly beautiful. I am so glad we stopped in for a visit.

The museum is free and very fun.

We used to just walk down there on Saturdays with our baby in the stroller. They change the exhibition frequently, so we always had nice surprises when we got there. And it was free (you can donate at the reception).

Cool little space with awesome art.

Nice to go for a walk and see the art

Not a huge place but artwork concepts were good

I been there and it very nice place to see Art. I enjoy looking at so many different picture. People will enjoy and kids may kind it to.

Its a very small museum with only two large rooms for artwork. But the artwork thats installed currently is terrific.

When to go see an exhibition. It was really lovely and had a lot to view.

Beautiful museum and the curators are all very friendly and knowledgeable.

The best parts of the exhibits were the descriptions of the exhibits. Unfortunately, it was too expensive for the price.

Excellent museum well placed near other cultural activities in Torrance--a public records repository, a court house, a senior center, a large pool, a public library, the Nakano Theater, as well as right across the street from a strip mall where you can get a massage that has got to be good--there is a photo of someone who is the spitting image of Ryan ONeal getting a massage to advertise the place. What is more, is that Hugos Deli is right at that strip mall practically across from the museum. You can get good deli--I believe Boars Head--and excellent service. And if you need to gas up or to go to an ATM before you get to this excellent museum, there is a Valero station right before you get to the museum at the same strip mall with Hugos Deli and the well advertised massage joint. The gentleman who owns and who operates the Valero is a hero to his corner and to his name. Recently at the museum, I viewed a marvelous work by a Korean artist that I paired--they let me photograph with my cell phone in the museum-- with a Japanese American childrens book that is based both on color theory and team theory and team work--good equipe and good atelier. I was inspired to do this because when I entered the museum, I saw a quote from R. Barthess Camera Lucida. I bought the childrens art book that I paired with the work by the Korean artist at the Japanese American Cultural Festival right next door that was held the weekend that I visited the museum. That festival featured excellent Shodo Calligraphy and good taiko drumming, as well as beautiful paper stamp art and even James Bond as a toy. I didnt buy 007. And not because Daniel Craig is British, but now has to advertise Lillet. I love Mr. Craig. I believe I have read that he was even homeless once while waiting for a break in his career. It was because the lady selling 007 couldnt tell me whether he was Nissei, Sansei or any other generation of James Bond. Roger Moore? Sean Connery? Not knowing, I wasnt going to play. However, I was able to make up for FedExs pretty recent loss of my order of a book documenting John Szarkowskis exhibit from the 1970s of Japanese prisoner of war photography from, I believe, a Museum of Modern Art exhibit low these many years in NYC. How was I able to do that? By buying a book called Impounded by Dorothea Lange. I dont like the title very much. I believe that some of Ms. Langes Works Progress Administration photographs of non-Japanese American subjects glamorize poverty. While Impounded does not glamorize poverty, it is not good art to use a word that now belongs to cars that have been towed away for a photography book about being a prisoner of war in ones own homeland. Why do I say that? Because at the very Japanese American cultural convention where I bought the book of Langes, there was a car--a Toyota Yaris, I believe--with Japanese Consuluar plates. So if anyone wants to reissue Ms. Langes work, lets do it under a different moniker. There was deft structure and desert color in some paintings featuring southwestern landscape work in, among other places, Arizona. Great brush and palette knife work. As for the real altar piece for me--and I lay this at the tomb of R. Barthes and Dorothea Langes subjects and all others who have a heart for the shadows of children in search of a team, I was able to lay the childrens book about color theory and team work at the feet of a punctured, but not wounding, work by the Korean artist. That work, because of its see through pointilliation, cast shadows of play about the museum. I put down the childrens book and photographed its bleeding colors with shadows to throw up all suns. And I hope that some sun comes to that museum and to that corner of Torrance even when it rains. Please go often and become a patron of the other activities that take place here. And dont forget the vendors across the street. There is also a place where you can get take out Chinese. Someone from Louisiana vouched to me for that places fried oysters. I cant wait to try them. So should you.

Good community art, fun little spot!

A modest civic museum in a commercial park.

Gorgeous artwork from local artists.

Love it

Sweet !