Beverly Hills' Subway Already Runs East, One Stop to Museum Row

Where does the subway take you if you live in Beverly Hills? Most of the planning talk has been about Wilshire and Reeves Drive, where Beverly Dr Station will serve the Golden Triangle. Metro's September 2026 forecast puts that opening in spring 2027. The station Beverly Hills already has sits at the city's southeast corner, and it has been carrying trains since May 8, 2026. Right now the subway is more useful for getting out of Beverly Hills than for getting into it, and the best trip from that corner is the short one heading east.

That trip is a single stop to Wilshire/Fairfax, where LACMA, the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, Craft Contemporary, the La Brea Tar Pits and the Petersen all sit right at the station. Between now and Thanksgiving, both of the big museums on that block have their fullest calendars of the year.

The station at the edge of town

The City of Beverly Hills places the Wilshire/La Cienega Station entrance at the northeast corner of Wilshire Boulevard and La Cienega Boulevard. Metro's first/last-mile plan puts the portal in southeast Beverly Hills, just west of the Los Angeles city limit. The City lists what it gives access to as restaurants, historic theaters, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and the Beverly Center. The Saban Theatre is close by, and so is La Cienega's Restaurant Row. In its spring guide to the line, the Los Angeles Times put Lawry's The Prime Rib 0.3 miles from the station, about a seven-minute walk.

Getting to the platform shapes how you'd use the station. The City says Metro is not proposing a parking structure at either Beverly Hills station. Riders are expected to use existing public parking within a half-mile walk, and monitored bike lockers and hubs are planned at the station plazas. Metro says the Section 1 stations have landscaped street-level plazas, elevators and escalators, ADA-accessible platforms, bike lockers and better lighting.

Once you're on the train, the trip costs very little. A regular one-way Metro fare is $1.75. Metro says D Line trains run about every 10 minutes for much of the day on weekdays and weekends, dropping to every 20 minutes early in the morning and later in the evening. The posted timetable took effect June 7, 2026, and a June change shifted some late-night departures without changing frequency or operating hours. It's worth checking the schedule before a late return.

One stop east, the museums open late in the year

The Academy Museum says Wilshire/Fairfax station is directly across Wilshire Boulevard from its campus next to LACMA. So the walk from the platform to either museum is about as short as the train ride.

At LACMA, the main draw is still the David Geffen Galleries. Members got in starting April 19 and general admission began May 4, 2026. LACMA calls the building the new home of its permanent collection, covering 6,000 years of art from around the world. The opening installation is organized around the Atlantic, Mediterranean, Indian and Pacific Oceans, with more than 80 presentations of thousands of objects.

The museum's fall exhibitions are a good fit for anyone in a city with a lot of notable residential architecture. Home of the Future, 1925–1985: Designing Domestic Utopias and The Kitchen and Its Discontents both opened September 27 and run through March 14, 2027. Paul R. Williams: Architect for Living opens November 15 in the Resnick Pavilion and runs through May 31, 2027. The Brockman Gallery: Los Angeles, 1967–1990 opened October 18 on Level 1 of BCAM.

Across the street, the Academy Museum's fourth-floor Marilyn and Jeffrey Katzenberg Gallery holds The Horror Show, which opened September 26. It moves through six themed "chambers" filled with original props, costumes and production materials and ends in a gallery called The Blood Room. The museum advises parental guidance. For younger visitors, the smaller, family-oriented Zombies! is next door in the Warner Bros. Gallery, and both exhibitions run through July 25, 2027.

The next six weeks, by date

The two exhibitions above stay open well into next year. The programs below each run for a few weeks or a single day.

Monster Mash, two days from this post's publication, is built around vampires. It includes special-effects makeup demonstrations, tours and monster appearances, and screenings of Blade, Hotel Transylvania and the US premiere of the 4K restoration of Horror of Dracula. The Halloween party adds cocktails and tarot readings, and the Academy Museum's announcement asks guests for their "most hauntingly glamorous costumes."

Picking the day changes the bill

The two museums close on different days. LACMA is closed Wednesdays. It's open 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday, 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Friday, and 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. on weekends. The Academy Museum is closed Tuesdays and open 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. the rest of the week. That leaves Monday, Thursday and Friday as the only weekdays when both are open.

Admission is where the day matters most. A standard adult ticket at LACMA is $25 for L.A. County residents with valid ID, but general admission is free for county residents on weekdays after 3 p.m. Kids and teens who live in the county get in free every day. At the Academy Museum, adult general admission is $25, visitors 17 and under are free, and adult screening tickets are $10. LACMA recommends buying advance timed-entry tickets, because walk-up timeslots can sell out.

Friday, with LACMA open until 8, makes the easiest afternoon of the week.

1. Take the train from Wilshire/La Cienega in the early afternoon for $1.75.
2. Spend a few hours on The Horror Show before the Academy Museum closes at 6.
3. Walk across the campus to LACMA after 3, when general admission is free for county residents, and stay in the Geffen Galleries until the 8 p.m. close.
4. Ride back one stop, with trains still running every 10 or 20 minutes depending on the hour.

On that route, a county resident's whole afternoon costs two fares and one Academy Museum ticket. The same visit on a weekend means paying full adult admission at both museums. LACMA also closes on Thanksgiving, so Thursday, November 26 is out.

What is still being built to the west

The station closer to Rodeo Drive is still under construction. Beverly Dr Station, which Metro adopted in May 2025 as the official name for the stop first called Wilshire/Rodeo, will have its entrance at the southwest corner of Wilshire Boulevard and Reeves Drive. It's planned as a through station, with Century City as the line's next terminus. Metro's September presentation forecasts both stations opening in spring 2027 and the full line to Westwood in fall 2027. It labels those dates subject to change.

The same presentation covers the work residents will see on Wilshire: entrance and elevator work at Beverly Dr Station, sidewalk restoration on the south side of Wilshire, and progress on the station's mosaics and track. Metro scheduled tree planting on Wilshire between El Camino Drive and Crescent Drive for September, with possible lane reductions and pedestrian detours, plus restoration work on the north side near AKA Alley and Beverly Drive. Final paving between La Cienega Boulevard and Willaman Drive was scheduled for the weekend of September 25–28. Metro's Westside project page is the place to check for current street conditions before driving that stretch.

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