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La Brea Tar Pits and Museum

Mid-Wilshire

Step into an active Ice Age excavation site at the La Brea Tar Pits Museum. Explore a vast collection of Late Pleistocene fossils and witness paleontologists at work, bringing prehistoric creatures to life in urban Los Angeles.

Active excavation site
Ice Age fossils
Bubbling tar pits
Life-size mammoth statues

La Brea Tar Pits and Museum

5801 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90036, USA

Upcoming at La Brea Tar Pits and Museum

Friday, Jun 12
Free Museum Days

Free Museum Days

June 12 at 3pm

Watch asphalt bubble up from active tar pits that trapped Ice Age mammals thousands of years ago, then head inside to meet their skeletons. Free admission for LA County residents and others during select hours.

KCRW Summer Nights With La Brea Tar Pits

KCRW Summer Nights With La Brea Tar Pits

June 12 at 5pm

Watch tar bubble up from the earth in the heart of LA while Ice Age fossils—saber-toothed cats, dire wolves, giant ground sloths—tell stories millions of years old. One of Earth's rarest windows into prehistoric life preserved in asphalt.