Here is the last day you can visit the La Brea Tar Pits museum before it closes for renovation

The Page Museum astatine the La Brea Tar Pits is closing down this summertime successful mentation for its archetypal important overhaul successful its 50-year history.

The closure comes arsenic its neighbour LACMA’s David Geffen Galleries yet unfastened to the nationalist aft a two-decade field transformation, and L.A. institutions marque a concerted effort to bolster the city’s taste country successful beforehand of the 2028 Olympic Games.

“We’re excited astir bringing the full field together, and our portion of it is truly important to making it consciousness similar you tin easy determination from LACMA implicit into the Tar Pits,” said Lori Bettison-Varga, president and manager of the Natural History Museums of Los Angeles County, which oversees the Tar Pits. “So we worked intimately with LACMA connected that interface, and we’ll proceed to bash so.”

The past time to sojourn the Page Museum is July 6. Prior to closing, the Tar Pits volition big a escaped nationalist KCRW Summer Nights lawsuit June 12 and a members-only, disco-themed creation enactment June 27.

The depository renovation, similar the precocious announced Samuel Oschin Global Center for Ice Age Research, is portion of the NHM’s broader Reimagine task — a yearslong tract revamp led by architecture steadfast Weiss/Manfredi that volition marque the 13-acre Tar Pits field much accessible and stress its relation arsenic the lone progressive paleontological probe hub located successful a large municipality area. For the Page Museum, that means a caller and improved northwest entrance, expanded disposable probe labs and collections displays, an immersive theatre and a rooftop terrace overlooking Hancock Park.

“We’re going to person this much accessible, state-of-the-art depository that truly tells the communicative of Ice Age Los Angeles and its relevance contiguous successful a mode that it presently doesn’t,” Bettison-Varga said.

Bettison-Varga added that the revamped Page Museum volition show “why this spot is simply a worldwide treasure, and that it’s telling america astir ecological and clime alteration that happened successful the caller past and what we tin larn from it.”

“All of this is astir placing it successful the discourse of relevance for today, not conscionable a model into the past,” she said.

To date, the Reimagine task has secured much than $131 million, conscionable implicit fractional of its $240 cardinal fundraising goal.

Guests tin inactive observe progressive excavation during the two-year depository closure — albeit from antithetic vantage points — arsenic researchers proceed their enactment connected site. Hancock Park volition enactment partially open, with caller walking paths and outdoor features acceptable to beryllium phased successful coordination with construction.

“[The renovation] is truly going to presumption that depository with respect to the scenery and the fossils that are close from this site, portion inactive preserving each the fantastic things that the assemblage loves astir the site: the frieze and the water pit, the mammoth family, the disposable excavations and, of course, the hills that everyone likes to rotation down,” Bettison-Varga said.

Plus, with the Geffen Galleries opening, “it’s really a bully reminder for everyone to travel spot the vintage, iconic La Brea Tar Pits earlier the Page Museum closes,” Bettison-Varga quipped.

While the Page Museum is nether construction, the grant-funded La Brea Tar Pits Mobile Museums volition proceed visiting schools and different nationalist places passim L.A. County.

The Page Museum opened successful 1977 and presently houses much than 2 cardinal specimens successful its collection.