Long Beach Museum of Art

"Museum & a cafe on a bluff-top site featuring galleries with works by Southern California artists."

The Long Beach Museum of Art (LBMA) is a historic oceanfront museum in Long Beach that hosts weddings across its bluff-top campus, which includes gardens, terraces, gallery spaces, and a courtyard. The campus offers ceremony space overlooking the ocean, gallery interiors with rotating art collections, and an on-site restaurant, Claire's, with unobstructed views of the Queen Mary and Catalina Island. The museum's permanent collection spans California art, California modernism, and art by Southern California women since the 1950s. Founded in 1950 as the Municipal Art Center, the museum has been collecting and exhibiting works across all media for 75 years; it added a second location, LBMA Downtown in the East Village Arts District, in 2019. Located at 2300 E Ocean Blvd, Long Beach, CA, with a second location at 356 E 3rd St in Downtown Long Beach. Wedding photographers note the variety of backdrops available without leaving the property, including ocean views, gallery walls with vibrant artwork, modern interiors, and evening lighting in the courtyard.