Fodor's Expert Review Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County

Downtown Los Angeles Family

The hot ticket at this Beaux Arts–style museum completed in 1913 is the Dinosaur Hall, whose more than 300 fossils include adult, juvenile, and baby skeletons of the fearsome Tyrannosaurus rex. The Discovery Center lets kids and curious grown-ups touch real animal pelts, and the Insect Zoo gets everyone up close and personal with the white-eyed assassin bug and other creepy crawlers. A massive hall displays dioramas of animals in their natural habitats. Also look for pre-Columbian artifacts and crafts from the South Pacific, or priceless stones in the Gem and Mineral Hall. Outdoors, the 3½-acre Nature Gardens shelter native plant and insect species and contain an expansive edible garden.

Don't miss out on the Dino lab, where you can watch paleontologists unearth and clean real fossils.

Family History Museum

Quick Facts

900 W. Exposition Blvd.
Los Angeles, California  90007, USA

213-763–3466

www.nhm.org

Sight Details:
Rate Includes: $15, Closed 1st Tues. of the month

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