About Our Museums | Natural History Museum of Los Angeles
The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, a look at the Rose Garden and the 1913 Building.
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Our New Car Park Is Open
Our newly-opened Car Park is on the southeast corner of Exposition Blvd. and Bill Robertson Lane, on the NHM campus. It is $8, and only cash is accepted. After you park, walk through the new native garden to the new outdoor ticket booth!
If our Car Park is full, parking is usually also available in lots throughout Exposition Park. These lots are $10 (though costs rise for special events) and are also cash only.
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About Our Museums
Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
- protects over 35 million specimens, dating back 4.5 billion years.
- is a resource for Southern California teachers.
- is an authority on the "big picture" of the planet, the natural and the cultural world.
- tracks the Earth's biodiversity, because knowing what is out there is the first step to conservation.
Page Museum at the La Brea Tar Pits
- is the only consistently active urban Ice Age excavation site in the world.
- houses one of the world's largest and most diverse collections of Late Pleistocene fossils.
- now hosts Project 23, an excavation project that can inform new research on global warming, geological change, and biodiversity.
William S. Hart Museum
- in Newhall is less than an hour's drive from most areas of Los Angeles.
- is the former 22-room home and ranch of William S. Hart, silent film cowboy star and director.
- sits in park area that includes a small herd of bison, a gift from the Walt Disney Studios in 1962.
For more detailed information about the Natural History Family, click here.
Or, explore the websites of the Page Museum at the La Brea Tar Pits and the William S. Hart Museum.