PLEASE REMEMBER Field Trip Guide • Stay within eyesight of your students at all times. • Only touch objects when invited, and touch gently. 5801 Wilshire Boulevard 213.763.3529 • Eat all food outside in the Park—water is okay inside Los Angeles, CA 90036 TARPITS.ORG the Museum! • Walk and use quiet voices. • Visit the Pleistocene Garden with your students, not Lake Pit Pit 13 Pleistocene Garden Observation Pit* the Atrium. The Atrium is too small for school groups. See our most iconic vista. Find out how tar traps See which Ice Age plants still Descend into a pit to experience • Look for Museum staff if you need help or have questions. Pits 3, 4, 61/67 mostly carnivores. thrive in L.A. and elsewhere. the park’s first museum in this special exhibit. Open to schools Discover how each pit at Project 23 La Brea Tar Pits Museum • Wear your Museum sticker during your entire visit for with advance reservations La Brea is a unique Ice Age Stop by our current Five million fossils from the re-entry. March–May. time capsule. excavation site to see what past 55,000 years put the • Lead students to reservations on time; they are only Pit 9 we’ve discovered today! La Brea Tar Pits Museum in *Reservations Required guaranteed at your scheduled time. a class all its own. Follow in the footsteps Pit 91 • Don’t forget the Tar Pits! See excavators in action at of mammoths! Look down into an active Project 23, peek down into Pit 91, or visit one of our fossil dig. many historic pits labeled on the map below.
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Museum Guided Program : Titans of the Ice Age : Meet at the top of the Entrance Ramp at scheduled time. Meet at the Encounters Theater at scheduled time.
Ice Age Encounters (Friday only) : Observation Pit : Meet at the Encounters Theater at scheduled time. Meet at the Observation Pit at scheduled time.
Fossil Collections Fossil Lab
Columbian Mammoth Dire Wolves Saber-toothed Cat
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Photo Experience Photo Pickup Titans of the Ice Age**
Encounters Theater* Museum Entrance
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**Reservations Required March–May 19-0362