Cheap & Cheerful PreHistoric "Pit Stop" - Mid Wilshire

Every Los Angeles elementary school age kid can tell you what a great place the (Rancho) La Brea tar pits is! The reason why it tops school field trip lists is that the George C. Page Museum (5801 Wilshire Blvd.) is recognized for having the largest and most diverse assemblage of extinct Ice Age plants and animals in the world.
Where else can you get a sense of what Los Angeles was like between 10,000 and 40,000 years ago, when animals such as saber-toothed cats and mammoths roamed what now is the Mid-Wilshire district? The Page Museum Laboratory is also an active research facility where visitors can watch bones being excavated, cleaned and repaired. The real crowd pleaser though is outside the Museum, where life-size replicas of several extinct mammals are featured.

The surrounding Hancock Park is a well tended, so do like the kids do and brown bag it!

Open 9:30 am to 5:00 pm Daily

Admission is $7.00 for Adults, $4.50 for Seniors 62 and older and Students with I.D.: and Youths 13-17 years old: $4.50, $2.00 for kids age 5-12 and free for children under 5 as well as members of the museum.


The Museum's parking lot is located at the corner of Curson Ave and 6th St, directly behind the museum (enter from the western side of Curson Ave). Monday - Friday
$1.50 per 20 minutes to a maximum of $9.00 (or $7.00 with Museum validation) Saturday, Sunday and Holidays:$7.00 flat rate
(Be sure to bring your parking ticket into the museum to receive your validation.)

http://www.tarpits.org/

If you want to make a day of it, you can also visit the Los Angeles County Museum of Art which is the next door neighbor of the Page Museum.
http://www.lacma.org/