Profound Impact
Major scientific contribution
SITE PRESERVATION
Preserve Earth’s most important Ice Age fossil site which provides an unparalleled record of environmental change over the past 60,000 years.
PREEMINENT RESEARCH
Through the Samuel Oschin Global Center for Ice Age Research, La Brea Tar Pits will be a preeminent research institution for understanding humanity’s interdependence with nature and convening collaborations.
COLLECTIONS ACCESS
Expand access to our collections and leverage new and emerging research techniques that promise future discoveries.
Education and inspiration
MUSEUM DISTRICT ANCHOR
Anchored in L.A. County’s museum hub and situated adjacent to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, the reimagined La Brea Tar Pits will provide even greater access to a globally important site, doubling the number of annual visitors to over 800,000 by 2029.
EDUCATION ACCESS
Expand powerful, immersive education and youth programming while increasing the number of schoolchildren reached to over 50,000 children a year.
SCIENTIFIC PIPELINE
Develop scientific literacy for the next generation through education programs and the internships and apprenticeships in our STEM and STEAM Pathways programs.
Community wellness and thriving
NATURAL OASIS
Provide an oasis of nature, gathering space, and urban shade that nurtures health, well-being, and community.
ECONOMIC IMPACT
Generate significant local economic impact (over $400 million) and job creation (approximately 2,000) in construction and other adjacent industries and businesses.
COMMUNINTY PARTNERSHIPS
Create deep community partnerships, access, and investment.
Environmental leadership
NEXT-GENERATION STEWARDSHIP
Inspire future generations to steward a healthy planet through formal and informal education.
AMBITIOUS SUSTAINABILITY
Adapt and reuse the current museum to preserve energy embodied in the original building as well as an all-encompassing, ambitious approach to energy/carbon impact, water use, ecology/landscaping, waste, health and wellness, and equity.
ENVIRONMENTALLY BENEFICIAL
Support an environmentally beneficial site through new plantings of native and adaptive plant species, light pollution and heat island reduction, and garden design that is pollinator and bird friendly.
