Founded in 1973, CAFAM presents traditional arts and crafts from Southern California and beyond, showing everything from traditional Japanese puppets to Mexican silverwork to local conceptual art.

Better than National Geographic, this museum explores the artwork and daily lives of people at different points in history through remnants of lives past: pottery, textiles, wood carvings, paintings, sculpture. Sometimes exhibits feature exotic art like the Chinese kites and ceramics of Tyrus Wong or religious iconography from Mexico. Other times, the museum looks right at today's LA— past exhibits have featured artwork from LAUSD students and local artist Joseph Shuldiner, who created would-be tools for a society that lives only in his imagination. Like the inside of a customs confiscation room, the CAFAM is often littered with Peruvian textiles, Ukrainian eggs, woven baskets from tribes living in the rainforest and hand-painted advertisements from Ghana. The art is awe-inspiring for residents who've never had their passport stamped—and so is the gift shop, which offers jewelry, CDs, books, folk and ethnic crafts and artwork from places as varied as Africa, New Guinea, Greece and India. —Mai Dinh

The Ukrainian Pysanka (Easter Egg) workshop takes place Saturday, March 31 from 1pm to 4pm. The workshop costs $30 ($20 for CAFAM members) and is recommended for ages 10 and up.