Nature

Exhibitions

Earth Day

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The Woolsey Fire in Southern California seen from Malibu Canyon Road.

Wildfire

For many years, we've been adding fuel to the fire.

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Living Wall

Where stone meets soil.

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Nature Lab

Live animals and hands-on interactives show you L.A.’s wild side.

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Children standing around the Paleo Play Zone, a counter with imitation sand and fossils, with mounted taxidermy up high on the wall in the background

Discovery Center

Dig for dinosaurs, wonder at live insects, and organize your own diorama.

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Events

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Wed

11

Sep

Tortoise walking on the floor with sitting children's legs and feet in the background

Meet a Live Animal

Tours & Shows All Ages

3 pm

Get up close and personal with the Museum's resident animals! Hear amazing stories about critters that are often misunderstood or overlooked.

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Thu

12

Sep

Meet a Live Animal

Tours & Shows All Ages

3 pm

Get up close and personal with the Museum's resident animals! Hear amazing stories about critters that are often misunderstood or overlooked.

Learn more

Fri

13

Sep

Meet a Live Animal

Tours & Shows All Ages

3 pm

Get up close and personal with the Museum's resident animals! Hear amazing stories about critters that are often misunderstood or overlooked.

Learn more

Sat

14

Sep

Visitors looking up, holding binoculars to their eyes

Nature Gardens Exploration

Tours & Shows All Ages

11 am

Enjoy NHM’s one-of-a-kind Nature Gardens while learning more about urban wildlife. Visitors of all ages are welcome to stop by anytime during the hour and stay as long or short as you’d like!

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Sat

14

Sep

Meet a Live Animal

Tours & Shows All Ages

3 pm

Get up close and personal with the Museum's resident animals! Hear amazing stories about critters that are often misunderstood or overlooked.

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Stories

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

Fabricating Wilderness

Explore a new book on the history of NHM’s habitat dioramas on sale this September

Red-tailed hawk perched next to a pipe on its nest

Hawks Are Everywhere!

Red-tailed Hawks Nesting at the Coliseum

Tropical reef with fish swimming around it

Science of SpongeBob: Marine Protected Areas

How can we preserve Bikini Bottoms around the world?

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BioSCAN

This first-of-its-kind scientific investigation is discovering and exploring biodiversity in and around one of the world’s largest cities: Los Angeles.

Partners

Resources

GeckoWatch

GeckoWatch is a community science project to map the fine-scale distribution of nonnative geckos in the United States.

Resources