La Brea Tar Pits and Museum, Los Angeles

My nephew had a ton of fun reading all the information that was available on all the displays. Loved everything that was being exhibited. Had tons of fun exploring outside and finding all the tar coming up from the grounds. Absolutely loved the garden. He learned a lot and loved seeing people working on cleaning up new found bones. It was quite impressive, even for us adults. We will definitely go back again.

Nice museum. Grandson liked it, granddaughter not so much. Depends what they're into. Very limited parking, arrive early (or later when the early people have left). Excavation sites outside not terribly exciting (to me). Buy tickets outside just as you leave the parking lot, much shorter line than inside the museum. They have a really nice interactive display of pistons stuck in tar. You pull on them to get a sense of how hard it was for animals to try to get out of the tar.