Museum · Exposition Park
Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
900 Exposition Boulevard, Los Angeles 90007
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The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County is the largest natural history museum in the western United States, in a 1913 Beaux-Arts building in Exposition Park next to USC. Visitors come for the dinosaur halls, the century-old habitat dioramas, the gem vault and the story of Los Angeles itself, plus outdoor nature gardens and rotating special exhibitions.
Permanent exhibitions
- Dinosaur Hall, with a growth series of Tyrannosaurus rex
- Becoming Los Angeles: 500 years of the city's history
- African and North American mammal habitat dioramas
- Gem and Mineral Hall
- Age of Mammals
- Nature Gardens and Nature Lab
- L.A. Underwater and the Hall of Birds
