Stories

Welcome to Stories, a place to explore—and be inspired by—the wonder of our natural and cultural worlds.

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Our Amazing Year

At NHMLAC, we seize opportunities all around us and engage with people like never before.

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A Storied Cape

Experience a little historical movie magic at NHM! A costume from the film, Little Women, is on display in our Becoming Los Angeles exhibition.

Aerial photograph of two people cleaning mammoth fossil

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Mammoth on Display

Our most complete mammoth, nicknamed “Zed” is almost ready to return to the limelight!

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Gift Guide

Bring the Museum home!

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Students Side-by-Side With Scientists

In our labs and collections rooms and out in the field, a rotating stream of exceptional students are part of an engine of discovery.

museum installation of full-sized cryolophosaurus replica

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Your Big Antarctic Dinosaurs Takeaways

After adventuring from the world as it was—Pangaea to a life-size re-creation of Cryolophosaurus, we caught up with some of the museum’s explorers to ask them about their expedition experience.

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Silhouette of monster for Natural History of Horror exhibition

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Museum-Made Monsters

The classic monster-movie artifacts that appeared in our Natural History of Horror exhibition are the result of one man’s uncanny foresight: Honorary Curator Earl Theisen.