Art Museum's Newest Addition Rolls Right In

A 340-ton boulder is on the loose Wednesday as it rolls from Riverside to Los Angeles to complete an art exhibit at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

The 340-ton boulder will roll through 22 cities and four counties before reaching it's home at LACMA. (Photo courtesy LACMA)

The 11-night, 105-mile journey will land the 21 ½-foot-tall granite megalith rock at its new home.

The sculpture known as “Levitated Mass” will become part of Artist Michael Heizer’s blueprinted entrance to LACMA. Visitors will hopefully be able to walk under the boulder before the start of the summer.

The rock is in transit from its pre-Holocene-era birthplace at the Stone Valley Materials Quarry on Pyrite Street near Rubidoux, Ca.  It will travel through the night at eight miles-per-hour through 22 cities and four counties before landing on Wilshire Boulevard on March 10.

The most direct route, going west on the Pomona and Santa Monica freeways, was not a viable option due to freeway bridges that hang too low for the boulder.  Instead, the rock will travel through side streets, requiring traffic lights to be disassembled and power lines to be cut.

The Chinese company Hanjin Shipping Co, is covering the costs of the trip with the help of private donors. LACMA Communications Director Miranda Carroll declined to comment on the cost of the project.