The Natural History Museum (NHM), La Brea Tar Pits Museum, and William S. Hart Museum will be closed until further notice to minimize the spread of COVID-19. Please check back for up-to-date information. See NHMLAC's response to coronavirus (COVID-19).

Visit Our Museums

We are happy to welcome guests back to NHM's outdoor Spider Pavilion and Nature Gardens as the first phase of our reopening. The museum at La Brea Tar Pits and the Hart Museum will remain closed until further notice.

Natural History Museum

Explore nature and culture from the inside out

brown spider in its web

Spider Pavilion

Rise Up L.A. artwork showing protester

Rise Up L.A.: A Century of Votes for Women

Celebrate the 19th Amendment

Macrophotograph of Mantisfly, Genus Plega. Photo by Lisa Gonzalez.

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

Photo of visitors looking at plants in the Nature Gardens at NHM

Nature Gardens

La Brea Tar Pits

La Brea Tar Pits museum will remain closed until further notice. See NHMLAC's response to coronavirus (COVID-19).

Photo of paleontologist excavating fossils

Excavations

Discoveries made daily.

See what we dig up

Mammoth and Mastodons hero image

Mammoths and Mastodons

Image of mammoths

Titans of the Ice Age 3D

Travel back in time

Enjoying Hancock Park

La Brea Tar Pits and Hancock Park

Explore the park

William S. Hart Museum

The Hart museum will remain closed until further notice. See NHMLAC's response to coronavirus (COVID-19)

photo of the inside of the hart museum

Guided Tours

Tour a cowboy palace!

join and give footer HART cactus

Explore the park

Your Old West adventure

black and white image of william s hart and fritz

Hart's story

Family admiring direwolf skull with gallery interpreter at La Brea Tar Pits

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