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The La Brea Tar Pits’ makeover team is adding new members. Lori Bettison-Varga, the president and director of the National History Museums of Los Angeles County, announced today that the La Brea ...
‘Mammoths and Mastodons' Now Tar-Pitting Up Our Lives Travel back to another age via a new exhibit at the La Brea Tar Pits Museum. Published January 27, 2019 • Updated on February 9, 2019 at 8 ...
Which is to say, the trio of fiberglass mammoths that have inhabited the Lake Pit at the La Brea Tar Pits since the late 1960s — and have concurrently functioned as paleontological science ...
It's a new temporary exhibition at the La Brea Tar Pits. It's part of a bigger re-think about how to bring together art and science at the museum. Keep KCRW Independent. KCRW is here to provide you ...
WEISS/MANFREDI’s design features a bridge across the Lake Pit at La Brea Tar Pits. (WEISS/MANFREDI/Courtesy NHMLAC) The Amsterdam-based firm will work with museum staff and lead architect WEISS ...
A child checks out the Columbian mammoth exhibit in La Brea Tar Pits Museum’s new interactive and hands-on Mammoths and Mastodons exhibit in Los Angeles on Wednesday, December 19, 2018.
It’s a great honor that KDJ has been chosen to design La Brea Tar Pits' new exhibition galleries. The Tar Pits is such a fascinating place for so many reasons, including being the only urban ...
Officials at La Brea Tar Pits are reopening a shuttered exhibition hall and reactivating an excavation site, allowing visitors to look on as workers dig for prehistoric fossils from a pool of ...
Gayle Anderson reports on how new research between paleontologists at the La Brea Tar Pits and Museum and orthopedic surgeon Dr. Robert Klapper at Cedars-Sinai could enhance patient care.
The tar pits were death traps—but still support life. In 2007, scientists discovered about 200 species of microorganisms ...
Visit the Field Museum’s new T3 exhibit, but don’t expect to find the Terminator. Instead, the “Teeth, Tusks and Tar Pits” exhibit stars over 300 fossils and skeletons. Gawk… ...
Exhibition design firm Kossmanndejong joins Weiss/Manfredi alongside architect lead Gruen Associates in La Brea Tar Pits' ongoing revamp.