Los Angeles Museum of Natural History

The Los Angeles Museum of Natural History opened in 1913 and was originally called the Museum of History, Science and Art.

The museum building, which is a marble structure with a colonnade and a dome, decorated in brown colors, is included in the National Register of Historic Places. On the very roof of the building is a sculpture of an eagle spreading its wings, and right behind it is an American flag.

In 1961, the Los Angeles Museum of Art separated from the Natural History Museum.

In the western United States, this museum is the largest. Its unique collection includes 33 million artifacts and exhibits, the oldest of which reaches 4.5 billion years. The main exhibitions include the Hall of Dinosaurs, the Hall of Birds, the Hall of Insects, the Hall of Predators and Mammals of Africa and North America and the Hall of Minerals and Stones. The Dinosaur Hall houses a large collection of 20 complete skeletons and 300 individual pieces of these animals. In the center of the exhibition are three tyrannosaurs of different ages.