BE ADVISED: The NHM Car Park will be closed on Friday, April 3 in preparation for First Fridays. Parking is available at the Blue Structure Parking Lot at Exposition Park Drive and Figueroa Street. Tickets for the event are SOLD OUT. For questions or directions, please call 213.763.3466 or email info@nhm.org.

#MindBlownLA Bill Deverell and NHM's Shining Star

Director at Huntington-USC, shares how the history of an iconic star blows his mind.

Founded in 1850, The Star was not only a 4-page bilingual newspaper, but an important regional organ of political debate in and around the coming of the American Civil War. Bill Deverell, Director at Huntington-USC, shares how the history of an iconic star once mounted outside of the L.A.’s first newspaper—La Estrella de Los Angeles—found in NHM’s Becoming Los Angeles exhibition blows his mind.