I know this sounds odd, but I guess going on the weekend leads to a lack of things going on. You would think the place would be busiest on the weekend, but the only thing they had going on while we were there was a Q&A with the people in the labs at the museum. We parked behind the park, and it was all day parking which was good, we had to go down a flight of steps and were on top of the museum, which seemed like an odd setup, and nothing was in the area at all. We walked down to the museum area and got tickets, its one big circle with an outside garden in the middle. The Museum was small, with various examples of what would be roaming around and getting caught in the tar pits. If you go on the weekend there is no one in the par at all, When we went the pit that is shown in the picture here on trip advisor had no one in it, and nothing is done, a bunch of trash was in the pit from people dropping things in it. The park area itself is expansive, but once you've seen the big pit closest to the museum and the one where they were working, the rest didn't seem to be too stimulating. I want to point out I love fossils and very into paleontology and was very excited to go. It was lackluster and sort of in the middle of town, so it takes a long time to get there through heavy traffic. I agree when people say if you are there for a short amount of time, not to go unless it's nearby something else you want to do or see. When we went we were going on a Hollywood tour in the early evening, so we weren't too far away from that. It was a lot less time to look around than I thought it would be. It may be better to go on a weekday than a weekend.