Stories

Welcome to Stories, a place to explore—and be inspired by—the wonder of our natural and cultural worlds.

The Ever-Changing Flow

A multimedia art piece that aims to bridge the gap between art, science, and technology.

Community Conservation at Elephant Hill

How co-created community science helps in the fight to save East L.A.'s largest open space

Stump the Paleontologist

What did dinosaurs do all day? How did they lay eggs on the ground without cracking them? How were dinosaurs created? Our Dinosaur Institute scientists answer visitors’ tricky, probing questions in this video.

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Walking With Giant Sloths

Take a (virtual) summer road trip to White Sands National Park to explore the fossilized tracks of giant ground sloths

An adult petroleum fly Helaeomyia petrolei taken with a keyence microscope

Get Stuck on Petroleum Flies

KQED’s Deep Look gets up close and personal with the Tar Pits most successful (and smallest) predator

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Baccalaureates in Biodiversity

Meet the first graduating class of NHMLAC’s extraordinary mentorship and apprenticeship program—UNLAB (Understanding Nature and L.A. Biodiversity). Discover what eight college grads learned about fish, snails, and other creatures of the natural world from ancient times to the present—and how to protect them in the future.

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Project Phoenix

Get involved in an innovative project that leverages the power of community to understand how wildfire smoke impacts California birds.

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Sam the Eagle Olympic Pin Collector Patch

Research and Collections

The Olympics in Los Angeles: Back to the Future

Los Angeles first hosted the 1932 Summer Games for the Xth Olympiad. The Museum, then called the Los Angeles County Museum of History, Science and Art, provided the venue for the Olympic Art Exhibition.