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January 2027
Thursday
January
28
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Tours & Activities

Meet a Live Animal

Get up close and personal with the Museum's resident animals! Hear amazing stories about critters that are often misunderstood or overlooked.

daily

  • 3:00 pm
LBTP
Tours & Activities

Discoveries From   
the Tar Pits

Join a Museum Educator to hear about exciting discoveries from the Tar Pits! These 20-minute presentations highlight what we can learn at the Tar Pits, followed by a Q&A opportunity. Topics are always changing.

weekly

  • 3:30 pm

Daily, 3:30 pm: 
Meet outside the Fossil Lab

Saturday–Sunday, 10:30 am:
Meet at flagpole outside Museum

Friday
January
29
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Special Exhibitions

Unearthed: Raw Beauty

Experience our newest exhibition showcasing some of the rarest and most spectacular mineral specimens ever discovered. Unearthed reveals the beauty of minerals and crystals in their natural state, with some on view for the very first time.

daily

through 04/18/27

  • 9:30 am
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Film Kids & Family

T. REX 3D Film

In the Commons Theater, see T. REX 3D which animates the life of T. Rex, including NHM’s own Thomas the T. Rex, in this all-new, family-friendly film. Narrated by Sam Neill of Jurassic Park fame, T. REX 3D offers a thrilling, immersive experience. 

weekly

  • 11:00 am
  • 12:30 pm
  • 2:00 pm
  • 3:30 pm

Daily showtimes vary. See ticket checkout to view available times.

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Film Kids & Family Adults

Oceans 3D: Our Blue Planet

Discover the largest and least explored habitat on earth. From the coastal shallows to deeper, more mysterious worlds, we reveal the untold stories of the oceans' most astonishing creatures.

weekly

  • 11:45 am
  • 1:15 pm
  • 2:45 pm
  • 4:15 pm

Showtimes vary. Visit the ticket checkout to view available times.

LBTP
Tours & Activities Kids & Family Adults

Excavator Tour

The Excavator Tour explores the Fossil Lab where real paleontologists work, our historic excavation sites, and Project 23, where live excavations can be seen.

daily

  • 1:00 pm
nhm
Tours & Activities

Meet a Live Animal

Get up close and personal with the Museum's resident animals! Hear amazing stories about critters that are often misunderstood or overlooked.

daily

  • 3:00 pm
LBTP
Tours & Activities

Discoveries From   
the Tar Pits

Join a Museum Educator to hear about exciting discoveries from the Tar Pits! These 20-minute presentations highlight what we can learn at the Tar Pits, followed by a Q&A opportunity. Topics are always changing.

weekly

  • 3:30 pm

Daily, 3:30 pm: 
Meet outside the Fossil Lab

Saturday–Sunday, 10:30 am:
Meet at flagpole outside Museum

Saturday
January
30
nhm
Special Exhibitions

Unearthed: Raw Beauty

Experience our newest exhibition showcasing some of the rarest and most spectacular mineral specimens ever discovered. Unearthed reveals the beauty of minerals and crystals in their natural state, with some on view for the very first time.

daily

through 04/18/27

  • 9:30 am
LBTP
Tours & Activities

Discoveries From   
the Tar Pits

Join a Museum Educator to hear about exciting discoveries from the Tar Pits! These 20-minute presentations highlight what we can learn at the Tar Pits, followed by a Q&A opportunity. Topics are always changing.

weekly

  • 10:30 am
  • 3:30 pm

Daily, 3:30 pm: 
Meet outside the Fossil Lab

Saturday–Sunday, 10:30 am:
Meet at flagpole outside Museum

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Tours & Activities Kids & Family

Storytime in the Nature Garden

Join Museum Educators for an interactive storytime in the Nature Gardens for caregivers and children ages 0–5. This Saturday, join Cindy Stansbury of the J Los Angeles Early Childhood Center for two storytimes, 10:30–11:30 am for ages 0–5 and 6–8.

weekly

  • 10:30 am
nhm
Film Kids & Family

T. REX 3D Film

In the Commons Theater, see T. REX 3D which animates the life of T. Rex, including NHM’s own Thomas the T. Rex, in this all-new, family-friendly film. Narrated by Sam Neill of Jurassic Park fame, T. REX 3D offers a thrilling, immersive experience. 

weekly

  • 11:00 am
  • 12:30 pm
  • 2:00 pm
  • 3:30 pm

Daily showtimes vary. See ticket checkout to view available times.

nhm
Special Exhibitions

Reframing Dioramas: The Art of Preserving Wilderness

To celebrate the 100th anniversary of the dioramas, NHM is restoring and reopening a diorama hall that has been closed for decades. There, visitors will experience immersive new installations that call attention to dioramas as a unique combination of art and science and explore biodiversity, ecology, conservation, colonialism, and changing museum display techniques.

 

daily

through 09/14/26

  • 9:30 am

Open 9:30 am–5 pm