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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
Retrospect: 50 Years at the Norton Simon Museum
February 14, 2025
- January 12, 2026
This focus exhibition, organized to commemorate the Norton Simon Museum’s 50th anniversary, offers a behind-the-scenes look at the Museum’s history, starting with its founding in 1975 to today.
Mariana: Velázquez’s Portrait of a Queen from the Museo Nacional del Prado
December 13, 2024
- March 24, 2025
Exhibited on the West Coast for the very first time, Diego Velázquez’s extraordinary painting Queen Mariana of Austria (1652–53) is on special loan from the Museo Nacional del Prado in Madrid.
NEWS & EVENTS
Norton Simon Museum Commemorates 50 Years of Art and Community
February 14, 2025
- January 12, 2026
The Norton Simon Museum commemorates its 50th anniversary with a year of exhibitions, events, a publication and an extensive exterior improvement project.
Norton Simon Museum's Exterior Improvement Project
January 7, 2025
The Museum embarks on a construction project to improve the exterior areas of its campus, including its Sculpture Garden, pedestrian paths, building facade, and site signage.
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