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Long Beach Firefighter's Museum Long Beach: Los Angeles Harbor Region: Firefighting: website: Long Beach Museum of Art: Long Beach: Los Angeles Harbor Region: Art: American decorative arts objects, early 20th-century European art, California Modernism and contemporary art of California Lopez Adobe: San Fernando: San Fernando Valley: Historic house
Pages in category "Geology museums in California" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total. ... Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County; U.
The Fernando Formation is a Plio-Pleistocene marine mudstone, siltstone and sandstone formation in the greater Los Angeles Basin, Ventura Basin, [1] and Santa Monica Mountains, in Los Angeles County of Southern California.
In 1913, George Allan Hancock, the owner of Rancho La Brea, granted the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County exclusive excavation rights at the Tar Pits for two years. In those two years, the museum was able to extract 750,000 specimens at 96 sites, guaranteeing that a large collection of fossils would remain consolidated and available ...
The Atherton Tableland is a fertile plateau, which is part of the Great Dividing Range in Queensland, Australia. It has very deep, rich basaltic soils and the main industry is agriculture. The principal river flowing across the plateau is the Barron River, which was dammed to form the irrigation reservoir named Lake Tinaroo. Unlike many other ...
Eventually, the museum renamed itself again, becoming The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. In 2003, the museum began a campaign to transform its exhibits and visitor experience. The museum reopened its seismically retrofitted renovated 1913 rotunda, along with the new "Age of Mammals" exhibition [7] in 2010. Its Dinosaur Hall ...
This is a list of museums in Orange County, California, defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing ...
The California State Mining and Mineral Museum exhibits and interprets the state's mineral resources and mining heritage. It is part of the California state park system, and is located near Mariposa , a town in central California, on the premises of the Mariposa County fairgrounds .