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Page Museum at the La Brea Tar Pits
Page Museum at the La Brea Tar Pits Review
This member of the Natural History Museum family is sunk, bunkerlike, half underground. A bas-relief around four sides depicts life in the Pleistocene era, and the museum has more than 3 million Ice Age fossils. Exhibits include reconstructed, life-size skeletons of mammoths, wolves, sloths, eagles, and condors. The fishbowl-like, glass-enclosed laboratory is a real attention getter—here you can watch paleontologists as they clean, identify, catalog, and piece together bits of fossils excavated from the nearby asphalt deposits. The La Brea Story, a short documentary film, is shown every 15-30 minutes. A hologram magically puts flesh on 9,000-year-old "La Brea Woman."
- Address: 5801 Wilshire Blvd., Miracle Mile, Los Angeles, CA 90036 | Map It
- Phone: 323/934-7243
- Cost: $7, free 1st Tues. of month
- Hours: Weekdays 9:30--5, weekends 10--5
- Website: www.tarpits.org
- Location: Beverly Hills and the Westside
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