Page Museum at the La Brea Tar Pits, Los Angeles

The Page Museum at the La Brea Tar Pits
5801 Wilshire Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA, 90036
323-934-PAGE
http://www.tarpits.org

Daily: 9:30a-5p
Adults $7
Students/Seniors $4.50
Children 5-12 $2
Free on the first Tuesday of every month.


Located in the heart of metropolitan Los Angeles, the world famous Page Museum at the La Brea Tar Pits represents the only active urban paleontological excavation site in the United States.

This unique Southern California attraction displays Ice Age fossils of animals from sticky asphalt deposits 10,000 to 40,000 years old, including saber-toothed cats, mammoths, dire wolves and mastodons.

Also on display are the fossilized remains of microscopic plant remains, insects and reptiles. Daily, visitors can watch scientists and volunteers clean, repair, and identify fossil remains inside the glass-enclosed Fishbowl Lab.

During the summer, visitors can watch the live excavation of fossils.

- The only consistently active urban Ice Age excavation site in the world.
- Houses one of the world's largest and most diverse collections of Late Pleistocene fossils.
- Hosts Project 23, an excavation project that can inform new research on global warming, geological change, and biodiversity.

Also related:
The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
The William S. Hart Park and Museum

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