The lights at LACMA and the smell of tar

After our amazing science adventure we made good use of our daily metro pass and caught light rail, the subway and a 'rapid' bus to get to LACMA ( Los Angeles County Museum of Art) on Wilshire Boulevard. An installation called 'Urban Light' by Chris Burden filled the entry plaza into the gallery and caught the interest of everyone.

The gallery has a number of buildings featuring different periods and cultures of art. In the short time we had at the gallery, we managed to find some key examples and wished we had more time to investigate their huge art collection.

When leaving the gallery, visitors have been sticking their entry ticket to traffic light poles outside the gallery creating an art installation in itself. Of course, we added to the display!

Next door to LACMA is the La Brea Tar Pits where bubbling tar erupts under the water and in the ground. It is here that a huge number of fossils have been recovered from the prehistoric period of animals that existed such as sabre tooth tigers and woolly mammoths.

Trying to lift metal bars through thick tar.

Looking at the skull of a sabre tooth tiger.

A laboratory where they investigate fossils and bones found in the tar pits - looks a bit like Jurassic Park!

Examples of creatures that existed in this spot thousands of years ago.

Bubbling tar next to busy Wilshire Boulevard.