Natural History Museum of LA
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| Established | 1913 |
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| Location | Exposition Park, Los Angeles, California |
| Type | Natural history museum |
| Visitors | About 1,000,000 Annually |
| Director | Dr. Lori Bettison-Varga |
| Public transit access |
 Expo Park/USCExpo/Vermont (Expo Line) |
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Natural History Museum
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| Location | 900 Exposition Blvd., Los Angeles, California |
| Coordinates | 34°1′1″N 118°17′16″W / 34.01694°N 118.28778°W |
| Area | 6 acres (2.4 ha) |
| Built | 1913 |
| Architect | Hudson & Munsell |
| Architectural style | Beaux Arts, Neoclassical, Romanesque, Spanish Plateresque |
| NRHP reference # | 75000434 |
| Added to NRHP | March 4, 1975 |
The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County is the largest natural and historical museum in the western United States, Its collections include nearly 35 million specimens and artifacts and cover 4.5 billion years of history. This large collection is comprised not only of specimens for exhibition, but also of vast research collections housed on and offsite.
The museum is actually an association of three Los Angeles area museums: The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, the Page Museum at the La Brea Tar Pits in Hancock Park and the William S. Hart Ranch and Museum in Newhall, Santa Clarita, California. The three museums work together to achieve their common mission: "to inspire wonder, discovery, and responsibility for our natural and cultural worlds."
NHM opened in Exposition Park, Los Angeles, California, United States in 1913 as the Museum of History, Science, and Art. The moving force behind it was a museum association founded in 1910. Its distinctive main building, with fitted marble walls and domed and colonnaded rotunda, is on the National Register of Historic Places. Additional wings opened in 1925, 1930, 1960, and 1976.
The museum was divided in 1961 into the Los Angeles County Museum of History and Science and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). LACMA moved to new quarters on Wilshire Boulevard in 1965, and the Museum of History and Science was renamed the Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History. Eventually, the museum renamed itself again, becoming the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County.
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