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Admission: La Brea Tar Pits and Museum Admission Ticket

Admission: La Brea Tar Pits and Museum Admission Ticket

Overview

Discover the curiosities of one of L.A.'s most unusual attractions: La Brea Tar Pits and Museum with this admission ticket. Enjoy this unique experience which helps unlock the local mysteries of the Ice Age. Visit an active Ice Age dig site and watch paleontologists excavate millions of fossils before your eyes. From viewing saber-toothed cats, mammoths, dire wolves, giant sloths, and watching scientists work on excavated fossil bones — it's all done right inside the museum.

City: Los Angeles

Sat 11 Jan

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What's Included

All taxes, fees and handling charges

Excavator Tour

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5801 Wilshire Blvd,

This ticket provides direct entry into the attraction

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This activity ends back at the meeting point.

Additional Info

Wheelchair accessible
Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
Service animals allowed
Public transportation options are available nearby
Suitable for all physical fitness levels
Involves a moderate amount of walking

What To Expect

La Brea Tar Pits and Museum

Use your general admission ticket for entry to the La Brea Tar Pits and Museum. Here, Ice Age fossils are being excavated right in the middle of L.A. Enjoy this truly unique attraction by experiencing all that it has to offer. Marvel at its outdoor Lake Pit, oozing with bubbling tar; travel back in time among the prehistoric plants of its Pleistocene Garden; and explore its active dig sites, where it seems excavators uncover something new daily. The museum itself features its own wealth of offerings. Scope out the fossils of prehistoric mammoths, saber-toothed cats, wolves, and ground sloths, or take an opportunity to watch paleontologists working in the Fossil Lab on their most recent finds. For a wonderful overview, reserve a spot on the Excavator Tour, free with admission. This guided tour delves into the history of the tar pits and explains just how so many massive creatures ended up stuck here. You’ll also visit the Fossil Lab, Observation Pit and Project 23, where excavators are continuously helping to unlock the mysteries of prehistoric L.A.

Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

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harikn

Mar 2022

We visited La Brea Tar Pits and Museum on 13 March 2022 in an afternoon on our way from Santa Barbara to LA . The Tar Pits phenomenon indicating Jurassic period connection was interesting and the museum visit was OK as it looked like any other geological / archeological museum in the US. An entrance fee of $15 per head appeared high. While the museum and surrounding area was kept clean , the toilet kiosks kept outside were dirty and very unhygienic.

wdl

Oct 2020

This is my first visit to the La Brea tar pits, after years coming to LA on a regular basis. For some reason, I have never taken the time to explore the tar pits and neither other attractions in the area, like the LACMA nearby. I finally did this time, with my family, and I am glad I did. The site is composed of the park with several open exhibits, a museum, and the tar pits. The museum and the tar pit requires admission tickets, but there are several scheduled activities in the park, including paleontologists digging and cleaning fossils. There are a lot of scheduled activities in the open air exhibits, where real paleontologists are still excavating/processing fossils retrieved from the pits. The museum is an ice age/dinosaur museum with exhibits similar to the ice age section of other natural history museums elsewhere, although it is always fun to look at reconstructed dinosaur skeletons and watch their educational movies. La Brea is a famous attraction and a nice place to spend some time. I would not classify it as a must, as we've been to other fossil excavation sites and natural history museums before, but I am happy to have done it, and it would make a terrific day if combined with other museums in the area, like the LACMA or the Peterson automotive.

CT H

Jul 2020

Great place to see a bit of prehistoric/ ice age phenomenon in action. Not often or never before can you witness dinosaur age skeletons being dug up, then cleaned right in front of you