Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County

• protects over 35 million specimens, dating back 4.5 billion years.


• is a resource for Southern California teachers.


• is an authority on the "big picture" of the planet, the natural and the cultural world.


• tracks the Earth's biodiversity, because knowing what is out there is the first step to conservation. 

• is 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.


• now hosts Project 23, an excavation project that can inform new research on global warming, geological change, and biodiversity.