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Museum at La Brea Tar Pits Is Open!

Advanced tickets are highly recommended for entry, and are available online.

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A gateway back to the Ice Age, right in the heart of L.A.

Witness science in action at La Brea Tar Pits.

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Lake Pit

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Project 23

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Dire Wolf Wall

Analisa Rivera, a UCLA senior, examining microfossils in the Fossil Lab.

Fossil Lab

Photo of saber tooth cat teeth in the fossil lab

Ice Age Fossils

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Mammoths and Mastodons

Explore how these titans of the Ice Age evolved, adapted, and survived in a changing world.
Make a giant discovery

Our Excavations

We literally have Ice Age L.A. in our hands with excavations happening in the park.

Dig deeper
Photo of paleontologist excavating fossils

Discoveries Made Daily

See the Ice Age at eye level

What are you interested in learning about at the Tar Pits?

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Cats
Icon of a globe and thermometer to represent climate change
Climate Change
Icon of binoculars to represent discoveries
Discoveries
Icon of a woolly mammoth head to represent mammoths
Mammoths
Icon of a shovel to represent digs
Excavations
Two pedestrian paths bring people above the Lake Pit, a site for urban fiction and imagination.
Reimagine
La Brea Tar Pits

Architects WEISS/MANFREDI selected to lead the master planning process in Hancock Park.

Imagine what's next
Photo of workers excavating in the 1800's

Tales from the Tar Pits

Before Wilshire Was Wilshire

Want to discover more?

Stories

Okay, now I'm curious
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You Herd of Bison in L.A.?

An Ice Age Angeleno