La Brea Tar Pits & Museum

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TEMPORARILY CLOSED. The Samuel Oschin Global Center for Ice Age Research at La Brea Tar Pits will reopen in 2028. 🐾 http://linktr.ee/thelabreatarpits

"The Evolution of Life on Earth" mural previously on display at La Brea Tar Pits
"The Evolution of Life on Earth" mural previously on display at La Brea Tar Pits
Male fossil skull of an Ancient Bison
Patrons at La Brea Tar Pits pose for a photo with a short-faced bear statue with text, "Make a memory before the makeover / La Brea Tar Pits Museum closes for renovations July 7. / GET TICKETS" with the La Brea Tar Pits & Museum logo.
Fossil of the Shasta ground sloth on Display at La Brea Tar Pits.
A portion of Charles R. Knight's painting of the interpretation of the La Brea Tar Seeps.
A DJ takes to the turntables at a public after-hours event at La Brea Tar Pits in Hancock Park.
Image of the Pit 3 Tree from the original Hancock excavations at La Brea Tar Pits.
Puma concolor skull LACMP23-32433 ready for research.
Lake Pit at La Brea Tar Pits
The dire wolf skull wall with text, "KCRW Summer Nights with La Brea Tar Pits / 6/12 / 6pm" with the La Brea Tar Pits & Museum logo.
The La Brea Condor displayed at the La Brea Tar Pits.
Juniper fossil
An Image of pit 61-67 from April 15, 1914.
Hearts and stars on a rich warm background with text "April 25. 6PM / Climate Dance Party AT LA BREA TAR PITS".
A museum patron takes a photo of a model of Homotherium serum at La Brea Tar Pits with text, "Sink your teeth into a new era! / La Brea Tar Pits Museum closes for renovations July 7. / Get Tickets", with the La Brea Tar Pits & Museum logo.
Text "CLIMATE DANCE PARTY / APRIL 25, 6PM @ LA BREA TAR PITS / HOSTED BY AYANA ELIZABETH JOHNSON" with logos for the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County and La Brea Tar Pits & Museum beside imagery of the paperback edition of "What If We Get It Right"?
Artwork for STEAM Family Day featuring a variety of colorful STEAM-related items and specimens.
Shell of a Mexican rams-horn snail found at the La Brea Tar Pits.
Colorful artwork featuring elements of STEAM education with text, "STEAM Family Day".
Volunteer processing microfossils at the La Brea Tar Pits.
A La Brea Tar Pits visitor sorts through real fossils and matrix on-site, donning protective gloves.
A coyote fossil mount in front of an Ice Age era mural previously on view at La Brea Tar Pits and Museum.
A portion of the Pit 81 block sliced through, showing numerous fossils, as it might appear if the asphalt matrix were clear.
Pygmy Mammoth on display at La Brea Tar Pits.
Dragonflies at Rancho LaBrea.
Concept rendering of La Brea Tar Pits courtesy of WEISS/MANFREDI.
Close-up of a Fossil Preparator at La Brea Tar Pits, scraping loose matrix from the crevice of a fossilized animal bone in preparation tray.
An iNaturalist observation of the only known (and newly described) species in the new genus Siskiyu armilla, Willow Creek, CA, USA, 2024-11-09 (iNaturalist) uploaded by Chloe and Trevor Van Loon.
Statue of a small faced bear at Hancock Park.
A special guest takes a photo of the Lake Pit Mammoth Family at La Brea Tar Pits with text, "La Brea Tar Pits Insider Tour / Your Backstage Pass to the Ice Age" with the La Brea Tar Pits & Museum logo.
A special guest takes a photo of the Lake Pit Mammoth Family at La Brea Tar Pits with text, "La Brea Tar Pits Insider Tour / Your Backstage Pass to the Ice Age" with the La Brea Tar Pits & Museum logo.
Introduced donkeys in the wild photographed by Michael Alfuso
Giant short-faced bear on display at the La Brea Tar Pits.
Close-up of a saber-toothed cat fossil mount from La Brea Tar Pits.