Press & Filming

You can find press information related to exhibitions, collections, and programs below.

Press Requests

For all press requests, interviews, images, and non-commercial filming assistance, or to be added to our media list, please send inquiries to press@nhm.org.

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Social Media Requests

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Sponsorship & Partner Requests

For sponsorship and partnership requests, please contact sponsorship@nhm.org. 

News & Press Archive

NightTales, a New Indoor-Outdoor Winter Lights Experience Illuminates the Natural History Museum This Holiday Season

Featuring artwork by Los Angeles-based artist Maggie West, NightTales gives visitors a chance to see the Museum and gardens in a whole new light

Natural History Museum Scientists Ready for Unlikely Visitors and Strange Creatures as Super El Niño Comes to Southern California

The strongest El Niño in more than a century is already bringing far-flung species into Southern California, with more expected in the coming months. Studying these specimens will help NHM researchers better understand the impacts of the tremendous climate event.

Press Release | LBTP

Paleontologists Reconstruct Forests of 56 Million Years Ago With Chilling Parallels for Our Warming Planet

Study finds PETM was marked by a widespread browning of Earth's landscapes—against a backdrop of elevated atmospheric CO₂, global warming, and reduced rainfall triggered by volcanically driven carbon release—and trees are at the root of these drastic changes.

Press Release | LBTP

A New Species of Ice Age Toad Discovered at La Brea Tar Pits: the spadefoot toad Spea labreae

Along with the first description of an extinct species of amphibian from Rancho La Brea, the paper also identifies the first record of the Mexican burrowing toad at the Tar Pits, 2,500 km north of its current distribution, shedding light on the impacts of climate change on species distributions past, present, and future.

New Species of Bizarre, Bipedal, Toothless Crocodile Relative from the Triassic Discovered

Unearthed in Ghost Ranch, New Mexico, Labrujasuchus expectatus—the ‘Witch Croc’—highlights the weirdness of life during the dawn of the dinosaurs and the legacy and ongoing discoveries at an iconic site 20 years into excavation