Here Is The Last Day You Can Visit The La Brea Tar Pits Museum Before It Closes For Renovation

The Page Museum astatine nan La Brea Tar Pits is closing down this summertime successful mentation for its first important overhaul successful its 50-year history.

The closure comes arsenic its neighbour LACMA’s David Geffen Galleries yet unfastened to nan nationalist aft a two-decade field transformation, and L.A. institutions make a concerted effort to bolster nan city’s taste segment successful beforehand of nan 2028 Olympic Games.

“We’re excited astir bringing nan full field together, and our portion of it is really important to making it consciousness for illustration you tin easy move from LACMA complete into nan Tar Pits,” said Lori Bettison-Varga, president and head of nan Natural History Museums of Los Angeles County, which oversees nan Tar Pits. “So we worked intimately pinch LACMA connected that interface, and we’ll proceed to do so.”

The past time to sojourn nan Page Museum is July 6. Prior to closing, nan Tar Pits will big a free nationalist KCRW Summer Nights arena June 12 and a members-only, disco-themed creation statement June 27.

The depository renovation, for illustration nan precocious announced Samuel Oschin Global Center for Ice Age Research, is portion of nan NHM’s broader Reimagine task — a yearslong tract revamp led by architecture patient Weiss/Manfredi that will make nan 13-acre Tar Pits field much accessible and stress its usability arsenic nan only progressive paleontological investigation hub located successful a awesome municipality area. For nan Page Museum, that intends a caller and improved northwest entrance, expanded visible investigation labs and collections displays, an immersive theatre and a rooftop terrace overlooking Hancock Park.

“We’re going to person this much accessible, state-of-the-art depository that really tells nan communicative of Ice Age Los Angeles and its relevance coming successful a measurement that it presently doesn’t,” Bettison-Varga said.

Bettison-Varga added that nan revamped Page Museum will show “why this spot is simply a worldwide treasure, and that it’s telling america astir ecological and ambiance alteration that happened successful nan caller past and what we tin study from it.”

“All of this is astir placing it successful nan discourse of relevance for today, not conscionable a model into nan past,” she said.

To date, nan Reimagine task has secured much than $131 million, conscionable complete half of its $240 cardinal fundraising goal.

Guests tin still observe progressive excavation during nan two-year depository closure — albeit from different vantage points — arsenic researchers proceed their activity connected site. Hancock Park will enactment partially open, pinch caller stepping paths and outdoor features group to beryllium phased successful coordination pinch construction.

“[The renovation] is really going to position that depository pinch respect to nan scenery and nan fossils that are correct from this site, while still preserving each nan awesome things that nan organization loves astir nan site: nan frieze and nan reservoir pit, nan mammoth family, nan visible excavations and, of course, nan hills that everyone likes to rotation down,” Bettison-Varga said.

Plus, pinch nan Geffen Galleries opening, “it’s really a bully reminder for everyone to travel spot nan vintage, iconic La Brea Tar Pits earlier nan Page Museum closes,” Bettison-Varga quipped.

While nan Page Museum is nether construction, nan grant-funded La Brea Tar Pits Mobile Museums will proceed visiting schools and different nationalist places passim L.A. County.

The Page Museum opened successful 1977 and presently houses much than 2 cardinal specimens successful its collection.