UC Irvine Langson Orange County Museum of Art Irvine — Attraction in Irvine

Do you like impressionist art? Do you like looking at art that features the beach or other outdoor scenes set in SoCal? Yeah, this museum is for you.

First, getting there: This museum is free. Parking is not. However, we were asked if we needed our parking pass validated, so it's possible this place validates parking for the lot right next door. There isn't a lot of signage for this museum. Just find the little cafe with outdoor seating and then look out the door closest to the register - that's the building where the museum is located.

What to expect: If Renoir had spent a summer in Laguna Beach, his artwork would be in this museum. There are a lot of plein air scenes of the beach, mostly in the Impressionist style, in here. There are also some other surprising pieces that are absolutely lovely. This museum rotates which of its pieces are on display about three times a year, with exhibits rotating every four months. It's a relatively small museum, but what did you expect? It's free. If you don't like it, keep your mouth shut and just enjoy the air...

My 9 year old daughter and I went here recently to see their California Impressionist exhibit. It was a great little museum in which to take younger children or husbands with short attention spans. You can see it all in half an hour! The staff was very friendly without being weird...which I am a little afraid of when I go to a museum. For you homeschoolering families like ours, do a little unit study beforehand on whatever their current exhibit is on, take your kids to the museum, walk across the street to Bistango and order their chocolate souffle and then go home and have your kids recreate with chalk or paint their favorite painting from the day. I always like to get a postcard from the gift store, if they have one, so my daughter can see the painting incase we can't remember all of the details. Oh, and if you let them know you homeschool, you get in free,...

Well i never got a chance to see much or any of the art work which is a shame if it. Wasnt got the rude young men at the door. I was simply lookinh at a painting and he told me to please not touch the painting well im over 30 years old im very much aware you are not soppose to dp that i told him nicely oh im sorry i wasnt touching it just looking at it his responce was well okey then can you just step back and mind your own. Honestly he needs to be train more on how to talk to people the right was and i get it the museum is free but that foesnt give him a right to treat people like that. But im sure it was because of my race because another person was way closer to another painting n he said nothing yo her. So all on all im sure the museum would have been great if it wasnt for the untrained young men...