La Brea Tar Pits
700 to 1,300 m² (7,500 to 14,000 sq. ft.)
More than 125 original fossils
Life-size models
Immersive animations and films
Hands-on-elements, interactive stations and audio stations
Touch screens and tables
La Brea Tar Pits takes visitors back to the Ice Age, when massive ground sloths, towering mammoths, and snarling saber-toothed cats roamed this planet.
Real La Brea Tar Pits fossils — from tiny microfossils to the bones of gigantic bears and mastodons — spectacular full casts of large skeletons, life-size 3D-reconstructions of extinct animals, interactive stations and films make this exhibition an unforgettable experience for all ages.
Visitors will be immersed in the paleontological excavations happening right now at La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles. They will make fascinating discoveries alongside La Brea Tar Pits scientists, and learn how the environment changed at the end of the Ice Age.
This traveling exhibition gives visitors the opportunity not only to learn about our planet’s past but also gives them context to understand present-day ecological change.
