BE ADVISED: Due to multiple events in Exposition Park on Sunday, April 26, the Natural History Museum will be closing at 4 pm. Parking and traffic in the area will be impacted. Limited parking will be available in the Blue Parking Structure for $20 when you tell the attendant you are visiting the Natural History Museum of L.A. County. For questions, 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.