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Aerial view of buildings with hand-written names over the streets
Street Names of Los Angeles
You may ride, drive, bike, run and walk your L.A. streets, but do you know the history behind L.A. street names?
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Special Species diorama artists
Special Species
This artists’ team—including from left to right, RFX1 (Jason Chang), Joel Fernando, and Yesenia Prieto—created a site-specific installation for a new exhibition.
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Saul Becker Peculiar Garden Fabricating wilderness
A Peculiar Garden
The artist, Saul Becker, created an apocalyptic, yet hauntingly beautiful landscape of glass, crystal, and metal that draws attention to ways humans have altered the habitats around us.
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Stephanie Abramowicz portrait at desk
The Dino Artist
Stephanie Abramowicz, illustrator in our Dinosaur Institute, has brought Gnatalie, the Green Dino, into full color. The paleoartist who also helped dig up the long-necked dinosaur—soon to be on display in the Museum’s new wing, NHM Commons—talks about how she uses scientific evidence to paint the prehistoric.
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Group photo at Staff Picnic at the Hart Museum
Martha Garcia, Behind-the-Scenes Queen
Celebrating 52 years of Excellence and Service to L.A. County
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The panel 'White washing history' from L.A. History A Mexican Perspective
History, Uncensored
Uncovering a history of censorship that threatened two of L.A.'s most iconic murals
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Lauren Schoth The Ever-Changing Flow vertical
The Ever-Changing Flow
A multimedia art piece that aims to bridge the gap between art, science, and technology.
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Nature walking up Elephant Hill
Community Conservation at Elephant Hill
How co-created community science helps in the fight to save East L.A.'s largest open space
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Dino Q&A Web Header stump the paleontologist
Stump the Paleontologist
What did dinosaurs do all day? How did they lay eggs on the ground without cracking them? How were dinosaurs created? Our Dinosaur Institute scientists answer visitors’ tricky, probing questions in this video.
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