The museum at La Brea Tar Pits remains closed until further notice. The park at La Brea Tar Pits is currently open, and visitors can see paleontologists working at our excavation site weekly. See NHMLAC's response to coronavirus (COVID-19).

Photo of paleontologist excavating fossils

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Excavations

Exhibitions

Onlookers watch scientists in the Fossil Lab

What happens after the fossils at La Brea Tar Pits are excavated? This is where you find out.

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Image of mammoths

Travel back in time with Titans of the Ice Age.

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Events

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Sat

28

Nov

guests family kids la brea tar pits fossil lab

Inside the Fossil Lab

Tours & Shows All Ages

2:30 pm

Discover how our paleontologists clean, sort, and study fossils uncovered in the Tar Pits!

Please note, we will have an additional programming on 2/17/20

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Sun

29

Nov

guests family kids la brea tar pits fossil lab

Inside the Fossil Lab

Tours & Shows All Ages

2:30 pm

Discover how our paleontologists clean, sort, and study fossils uncovered in the Tar Pits!

Please note, we will have an additional programming on 2/17/20

Learn more

Sat

05

Dec

guests family kids la brea tar pits fossil lab

Inside the Fossil Lab

Tours & Shows All Ages

2:30 pm

Discover how our paleontologists clean, sort, and study fossils uncovered in the Tar Pits!

Please note, we will have an additional programming on 2/17/20

Learn more

Sun

06

Dec

guests family kids la brea tar pits fossil lab

Inside the Fossil Lab

Tours & Shows All Ages

2:30 pm

Discover how our paleontologists clean, sort, and study fossils uncovered in the Tar Pits!

Please note, we will have an additional programming on 2/17/20

Learn more

Sat

12

Dec

guests family kids la brea tar pits fossil lab

Inside the Fossil Lab

Tours & Shows All Ages

2:30 pm

Discover how our paleontologists clean, sort, and study fossils uncovered in the Tar Pits!

Please note, we will have an additional programming on 2/17/20

Learn more

Stories

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Recorrido virtual de la Sala de Dinosaurios - Español

Una visita virtual a la era de los dinosaurios.

Photograph of the Dino Hall exhibit

Virtual Tour of Dino Hall - Mandarin Chinese

A virtual visit to the Age of Dinosaurs

Clear glass drug bottle from turn of the century

Message From A Bottle

Finds from Exposition Park excavations reveal past lives.

Preparator James Preston working on fossils from home.

A Different Kind of Prepping

For Vertebrate Paleontology Preparator James Preston, science doesn’t stop.

mammoth exhibit tar pits mammoths and mastodons

Meet Hayden, the Metro Mammoth

A juvenile mammoth that was discovered during a dig for the new Metro

Woolly Rhino in the snow.

Woolly Rhino Fossil with Xiaoming Wang

Our researchers make exciting discoveries all over the world

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Future Paleontologist

Dig up the past as you discover the science of the fossil’s journey from excavation to our col

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Tar Pits in Peru

Our Expeditions

Our goal is to foster integrative research collaborations at asphaltic fossil localities around the world.

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