Pay a Visit to Natural History Museum in Los Angeles - Discover the Wonder of Natural and Cultural Worlds

The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County is one of the largest and oldest museums in the United States. It was founded in 1913 as the Museum of Science, History and the Arts.

Natural History Museum of Los Angeles on Wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_History_Museum_of_Los_Angeles_County

With almost 93 years of service the museum contains the largest collection of specimen and artifacts. The museum collection fields includes Annelida, Archaeology, Ethnology, Botany, Crustacea, Echinoderms, Entomology, Herpetology, History, Ichthyology, Invertebrate paleontology, Malacology, Mammalogy, Mineralogy, Ornithology and Vertebrate paleontology.

Natural History Museum official site

http://www.nhm.org/site/

If you are planning a visit to the museum it is located at 900 Exposition Boulevard Los Angeles. For a planned group tours you might want to contact the museum for available schedule at (213) 763-DINO.

Museum schedule and address

http://www.nhm.org/site/plan-your-visit

The museum is open at 9:30am until 5pm from Monday to Sunday except for holidays like New Year's Day, Independence Day and Christmas Day where the museum will be close. Adult's admission fee is $9 and students and senior citizens are $6.50, while children less than 4 years of age can enjoy going to the museum for free.

More information on Natural History Museum

http://dinosaurs.about.com/od/dinosaurmuseums/p/nhmlac.htm

One of the famous collections in the museum is the Dinosaurs Hall which is currently under renovation and will be available in 2011. Aside from Dinosaurs there's also the La Brea Tar Pits where fossils of mammoths, saber-toothed tigers and giant ground sloths are available.