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The Otis Booth Pavilion at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles ticket printing software County is set to open June 9. (Michael Owen Baker/Staff Photographer) A saber with an inscription from 1813 at the "Becoming Los Angeles" exhibition set to open July 12 at the Natural ticket printing software History Museum of Los Angeles County. The Natural History Museum is marking its 100th anniversary this year with the opening of the Otis Booth Pavilion in June and the "Becoming Los Angeles" exhibition ticket printing software in July. (Michael Owen Baker/Staff Photographer)
That means a lush, sun nourished nature garden where a parking lot once stood and a 14,000-square- foot exhibition that tells the story of how Los Angeles transformed from the home of native peoples and dusty pueblos, to the epicenter of the motion picture industry and a bustling global city.
The two upcoming exhibits at the Los Angeles County Natural History Museum in Exposition Park, to be unveiled in June and July, are a culmination of a decade-long, $135 million transformation. The goal behind all the work, officials said, is to bring the visitor's experience full circle with the message that a natural museum is more than just a repository ticket printing software of ancient fossils, ticket printing software petrified wood, and rusted artifacts: It's a living monument that tells the ongoing story of how nature and culture intertwine.
In addition to its main Advertisement entrance, visitors already can enter the museum from Exposition Boulevard, but come June they will walk over a pedestrian bridge that will lead to a 3.5 acre nature garden filled with native plants such as rosemary and hummingbird sage, artemisia and laurel sumac. Adults and children can stop by a listening post where specially placed microphones will allow visitors to hear the way a tree "drinks" water. They also can pause by a pond to watch for turtles, lizards ticket printing software and dragon flies.
The Exposition Boulevard entrance also opens up to the Otis Booth Pavilion, the centerpiece of the gardens. The all-glass pavilion will feature a hanging, 63-foot-wide fin whale that will appear to be floating from those who can see it from the street level.
The museum opened to great fanfare in Exposition Park on Nov. 6, 1913, a day after thousands of people followed William Mulholland to the San Fernando Valley to watch water trickle down the new cascades in Sylmar at the end of the 233-mile Los Angeles Aqueduct.
The $350,000 Los Angeles County Museum of History, Science and Art, as it was called then, was built to enhance civic pride in an area once dominated by debauchery. Legal prostitution, bars, and horse races lured corrupt politicians to the area. But the museum, with its grand Beaux Arts edifice, its 53-foot rotunda made of marble, gold and stained glass and its historical artifacts and fossils from the La Brea Tar Pits, placed Los Angeles on the cultural map, historians Simon Adlam, left, director of exhibits and creative director, and curator Bill Estrada, look at a 1939 WPA model of downtown Los Angeles on display at the "Becoming Los Angeles Exhibit" which is set to open in July at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. (Michael Owen Baker/Staff Photographer) say. Over the years, the museum would amass thousands of historical ticket printing software and cultural objects, making it the largest collection of its kind in the West.
But time and the elements took their toll on the building, and in the last 10 years especially, public officials and private ticket printing software funders invested in its renovation, which included a seismic retrofit, the installation of high-tech electrical makeover, a restoration of the rotunda's stained-glass windows and dome. Also opened was the Age of Mammals in 2010 and Dinosaur Hall in 2011.
But that water from the Owens Valley that rushed ticket printing software into Los Angeles was a pivotal moment for the region, said William Estrada, curator of the History Department at the Natural History ticket printing software Museum and the award-winning author of "The Los Angeles Plaza: Sacred and Contested Space."
The museum's second exhibition, ticket printing software which opens in July, is called "Becoming Los Angeles" and will include a small glass bottle filled with the very same water that rushed into Los Angeles that day in 1913.
The exhibit will include artifacts and stories from the native Tongva peoples, the Californios and Mexicans, to present day. A wooden automobile from 1902 made in a Los Angeles factory ticket printing software will be on display ticket printing software as well as Charlie Chaplin's original ticket printing software "Tramp" suit from 1932 and Walt Disney's handmade animation ticket printing software stand.