Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
Natural history museum in California
About
The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County is a museum located in Exposition Park in Los Angeles, next to the California Science Center. It is the largest natural and historical museum in the Western United States, with a collection of nearly 35 million specimens and artifacts covering 4.5 billion years of history, it is also home to the rarest gemstone in the world, Kyawthuite. This large collection consists of not only specimens for exhibition but also vast research collections housed on and offsite.
The museum is associated with one other museum in Greater Los Angeles: the Page Museum at the La Brea Tar Pits in Hancock Park. The two museums work together to achieve their common mission: "to inspire wonder, discovery, and responsibility for our natural and cultural worlds".
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