The Hart Museum remains closed. Los Angeles County has approved a plan to transfer the William S. Hart Museum and Park from the County to the City of Santa Clarita.

Learning Resources

Lesson Plan | All Grades

Daring Dioramas

Discover the art and science of dioramas and invite your students to build their own!

Activity | All Grades

Art Inside & Out: Introductory Drawing Lessons Inspired by NHMLAC Collections

With keen observational drawing skills and the amazing collections of the Natural History Museums of Los Angeles County to explore, your journey with this art activity guide will be a scientific, cultural, and artistic one.

Entrance to Becoming Los Angeles Exhibition filled with historic images and colorful banners

Activity | GR 2-5 | GR 6-12

Becoming Los Angeles Scavenger Hunt

GR 2-5 | GR 6-12

Los Angeles Underwater Scavenger Hunt

Teacher Guide | All Grades

Teachable Moments: Los Angeles Underwater

A Teacher Guide to help guide your students' experience in our newest temporary exhibit: "L.A. Underwater: The Prehistoric Sea Beneath Us"

Banners with phrases in bold text hang from the ceiling

Lesson Plan | GR 6-12

Found History 6–12

Understand bias in history through exploring exhibit text and creating a found poem.

Colorful banners with text excepts hang from the ceiling

Lesson Plan | GR 2-5

Found History 2–5

Gather fragments and phrases from exhibit text to create a found poem and explore point of view.

A T-rex skull is illuminated in a dark hall

Lesson Plan | PK-GR 1

Adaptation Sensation

Solve rhyming clues to figure out which adaptations helped dinosaurs survive in their habitats.

Jewish Holiday Scavenger's Hunt PJ Library event

Activity

A Jewish Holiday Scavenger's Hunt at NHM

Whimsical books about Jewish culture and celebrations are the inspiration for a quest for answers hidden in the gardens and galleries of NHM!

A light yellow and tan mineral with rectangular growths.

Lesson Plan | GR 2-5

Let's Talk Rock

Use field-specific adjectives to describe the splendor you see in our planet’s rocks and minerals.