Story Topics | La Brea Tar Pits

The panel 'White washing history' from L.A. History A Mexican Perspective

History, Uncensored

Uncovering a history of censorship that threatened two of L.A.'s most iconic murals

Community Conservation at Elephant Hill

How co-created community science helps in the fight to save East L.A.'s largest open space

Walking With Giant Sloths

Take a (virtual) summer road trip to White Sands National Park to explore the fossilized tracks of giant ground sloths

An adult petroleum fly Helaeomyia petrolei taken with a keyence microscope

Get Stuck on Petroleum Flies

KQED’s Deep Look gets up close and personal with the Tar Pits most successful (and smallest) predator

Naturalist

Baccalaureates in Biodiversity

Meet the first graduating class of NHMLAC’s extraordinary mentorship and apprenticeship program—UNLAB (Understanding Nature and L.A. Biodiversity). Discover what eight college grads learned about fish, snails, and other creatures of the natural world from ancient times to the present—and how to protect them in the future.

Sam the Eagle Olympic Pin Collector Patch

Research and Collections

The Olympics in Los Angeles: Back to the Future

Los Angeles first hosted the 1932 Summer Games for the Xth Olympiad. The Museum, then called the Los Angeles County Museum of History, Science and Art, provided the venue for the Olympic Art Exhibition.