Natural History Museum of Los Angeles
The Museum was founded in 1913. The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County is the largest museum of natural and cultural history in the western United States. The Museum's world-class research and collections programs focus upon objects and specimens relating to 21 disciplines, including history, anthropology, mineral sciences, invertebrate and vertebrate zoology, invertebrate and vertebrate paleontology and botany. The Museum's distinctive mission combines cultural and natural science collections that allow for thorough exploration of the relationships between civilization and the environment.
The Museum's 130,000 square feet of public galleries which include halls devoted to gems and minerals, extant and extinct mammals, dinosaurs, birds, marine life, Native American and pre-Columbian cultures and U.S. and Southwest history and its innovative on- and off-site educational programs serve more than 750,000 students, families and adults each year.
The Natural History Family of Museums includes the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Page Museum at the La Brea Tar Pits and the William S. Hart Museum, together serving more than 1 million people annually.
Scientific Account of Museum
A scientific description of seismic, storm, flood, and fire hazard dynamics study the evolution of the built environment against proposals that would have involved designing with rather than against nature the role of disaster amnesia in the history of extreme storm events.
Davis in his book Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster begin with an account of the geographical specificity of the natural environment upon which Los Angeles rests. As is recognized, Los Angeles experiences periodic earthquakes, storms, floods, and fires followed by long periods of calm. Drawing together recent scientific evidence and opinion on the periodicity and magnitudes of these events, Davis suggests that 20th century Los Angeles grew during a relatively wet "seismic.......
