My favorite type of museum is a Natural History Museum and I was excited to visit the one in LA. It is on the small side and not nearly the caliber of the one in D.C. or New York, but it is well curated and I enjoyed the exhibits. It is also in an absolutely gorgeous building and the architecture of the museum itself was really enjoyable.
The dinosaur area was really well done although most of the bones are replicas. It’s also two levels so you can go upstairs and look down on the displays which I really liked.
I really enjoyed the area with North American extinct animals like the sabre tooth tiger and wooly mammoth. They also had an area that showed the skulls with the evolution of man that was really well done.
The nicest room in the entire building was a center rotunda with absolutely gorgeous columns and a statue.
Then they had a gallery with North American Mammals with scenes and large taxidermy animal. These animals were killed a long time ago and at least they are being used to increase awareness.
They had a separate room with African animals as well
The rare shell area was pretty neat and the bird area had so many different birds.
One of my favorite rooms is always the gem and natural mineral room. This museum has an impressive collection and I really like the way it was laid out. Could have spent hours in here, but Lee got a little bored 🙂 Since it is California they have an EXCELLENT gold collection. The most I have personally seen anywhere.
Overall it was a nice museum but I do recommend getting there early because parking is limited and it gets crowded pretty fast. Definitely worth a stop though if you are interested in Natural History museums and in LA.
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