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Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
900 Exposition Boulevard, Los Angeles 90007
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