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The NHM has millions of specimens in its collections. Members at the Naturalist level and higher are invited to schedule a behind-the-scenes tour with one of our curators to see these treasures and learn about real science happening here at the Museum.
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Show your valid Metro pass or Metro Rail ticket at the box office and get $1.25 off adult admission. There are two NHM-convenient stops on the Metro Expo Line: the Expo/Vermont station or Expo Park/USC station.
(Hints: The Expo/Vermont station brings you by our Dueling Dinos statue. The pretty, short walk from Expo Park/USC is adjacent to the Rose Garden and NHM's renovated 1913 Building.)
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Thursday - Friday: 10:30 am, 11:30 am, 1:30 pm*
Saturday - Sunday: 11:30 am, 1:30 pm, 2:30 pm, 3:30 pm*
Located in Level 2 North American Mammal Hall
*All times are subject to change. Please check the Museum calendar or upon arrival, the admissions desk.
Starting September 12, 2012, see Ice Age Encounters at the Page Museum at the La Brea Tar Pits.
2 pm
Meet at Dueling Dinos, Level 1
Monday - Friday: 3 pm
Saturday - Sunday: 11 am, 3 pm
Check map insert for location!
On the weekends, we have Critter Clubs for 3- to 5-year-olds, and Junior Scientists for 6- to 9-year-olds. In Curator's Cupboard events, our staff brings out special items not usually on display.
If you're creative and brainy, come to a B-Movies and Bad Science screening.
Outside the Museum's South Entrance, you'll find enclosed habitats filled with life.
From April to September, the Butterfly Pavilion is fluttering with over 40 species of live butterflies.
From late September to November, the Spider Pavilion houses web-weavers, hard at work. Come check out their intricate webs!
If you want to see creatures come alive, check out our Dinosaur Encounters and Encounters Jr. programs.
Roam the Museum after hours, and see cutting-edge music and discussion in First Fridays.
At Sustainable Sundays, we feature workshops, activities (indoors, and out in the garden), and film screenings. They're conservation-minded, but not preachy or boring, we promise!
You'll be surprised how much you can learn at a movie screening and discussion where the science is all wrong! Learn more about the film series B-Movies and Bad Science.
For our members, there are special Behind-the-Scenes Tours and Scavenger's Safaris. And every year around Halloween, the Museum opens up for Haunted Museum!
Our Adventures in Nature day camps are offered during the summer, for children in kindergarten through grade 8.