NHMLAC Connects

We invite you to explore natural and cultural wonders safely and digitally from home.

Think physical distancing with dinosaurs and mammoths, and connecting with nature and community science right outside your own door. The Museums want to know: what blows your mind? Connect with inspiring educators, scientists, and each other for virtual adventures. Access rich curriculum and activities to do with your family at home. Participate in exciting crowd-sourced science and social media campaigns. This month, NHMLAC Connects is spotlighting the marvels of flight, here on Earth and elsewhere.

Brown insect with a hard-looking rounded outer shell

Spiky, Hairy, Shiny: Insects of L.A.

Take a new, buzz-worthy tour of our Nature Gardens

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Out in Los Angeles

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A Mural Remembers L.A.

The Stories Behind LA's Street Names

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It may surprise you, but Los Angeles exists inside a “Biodiversity Hotspot,” an area with plants and animals that are incredibly diverse, but also under threat. Explore the wild world that L.A. has to offer.

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Close-up of a male biting the head of a female.

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Climate Change, Reptiles, and You!

#MindblownLA
Mobs of Blue Morphos

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What fueled car culture?

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A Rattlesnake Stroll

Tallulah the Solomon Island Skink Looking Up

Chill Out With Tallulah the Skink

There's Climate History at the Bottom of the Ocean

What Just Flew by My Window?

Owl About Odin

Itsy-Bitsy Made Big

For Families

#MuseumLikeMe: Lizard Moves

Cold-blooded moves for hot summer days!

Get moving

Girls Learning In Adventures in Nature Camp

Registration is open!

Golden Silk Spider in its web against a green background of foliage

Nature Hunt

Start exploring

Painting of ice age Los Angeles featuring animals found as fossils at the Tar Pits

DIY Paleoart

The art of the Ice Age

flowers and leaves arranged on a colorful sheet

DIY Nature Journal

Make your own!

Young girl observing nature up close in Nature Gardens at NHM

Place in the World

Discover more

Little boy in hat crouches on a low rock ledge and looks into the nature gardens pond

Outdoor Exploration Guide

Start your journey

4 speckled eggs on a table surrounded by spinach, nuts, and cabbage

Dyeing Dino Eggs

DIY

Looking down from the balcony into the expansive Dinosaur Hall

Dino Hall Scavenger Hunt

Search through our Dino Hall

Youth with dinosaur puppets against a backdrop

Make Your Own Dinosaur Shadow Puppet!

Learn how

students kids classroom activities education resources

For Teachers

Check out all our favorite educational activities, lesson plans, how-to's, and resources designed to be used offsite

Connect from home

Global Adventures

Mind-Blown Science: The Ant-decapitating Fly

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Netting Specimens in Costa Rica

A fishy tale

From Giant Ground Sloths to Fossil Poop

Tar pits of the world

Amy Gusick doing field research in Micronesia

Humans On The Move

Explore the environment

Close up of diana kou's dusty hand with her face out of focus

My Dinosaur Dig

Unearth an adventure

Woolly Rhino Fossil with Xiaoming Wang

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Meet Our Polar Explorer

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Behind the Scenes

We have over 35 million specimens in our collections, including dino bones, colorful birds, and bits of L.A. History. Most of those treasures are behind the scenes! Take a peek inside our hidden museum worlds.