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Digital Guide to La Brea Tar Pits
Digital Guide to La Brea Tar Pits
Explore La Brea Tar Pits—including the new Mark Dion exhibit Excavations—as well as over 160 international museums, galleries, sculpture parks, gardens, and cultural spaces on our Bloomberg Connects free digital guide.
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Prehistoric Fight Nights at NHMLA
Prehistoric Fight Nights at NHMLA
Join Rextooth Studios’ Ted Rechlin, award-winning graphic-novelist, animator, film-maker and science communicator, as he goes head to head with experts from NHM and La Brea Tar Pits over two nights to battle it out and crown the toughest champions of ea
Free-For-All 2026
Free-For-All 2026
La Brea Tar Pits Insider Tour
La Brea Tar Pits Insider Tour
Ever pictured yourself reflected in bubbling asphalt? Wished you could meet the iconic mammoth family of Wilshire Boulevard? Now’s your chance! Sink your saber teeth into this exclusive behind-the-scenes tour. Get your backstage pass to the Ice Age.
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Reimagining the Tar Pits
Reimagining the Tar Pits
The Natural History Museums of Los Angeles had narrowed the choice down to three architectural teams: Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Weiss/Manfredi and Dorte Mandrup.
La Brea Tar Pits gets largest-ever donation toward site revamp - Los Angeles Times
La Brea Tar Pits gets largest-ever donation toward site revamp - Los Angeles Times
Thanks to its largest-ever donation, the La Brea Tar Pits will now house the Samuel Oschin Global Center for Ice Age Research.
The Wall Street Journal | Meet Zed, the Tar-Pit Mammoth Who’s About to Be a Star
The Wall Street Journal | Meet Zed, the Tar-Pit Mammoth Who’s About to Be a Star
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Mark Dion: Excavations
Mark Dion: Excavations
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Tar Pits SketchFab AR
Tar Pits SketchFab AR
Reconstruction of a mountain lion (Puma concolor). Fossil bones of this Ice Age species were excavated from the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles, California. - Low poly mountain lion (Puma concolor) - Download Free 3D model by Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County (@NHMLA)
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