Science Bulletin March/April 2014 | Page 15

The final part of the transformation is the completion of the Otis Booth Pavilion, which is a gigantic glass cube where a whale skeleton hangs. As you walk into the Natural History Museum you enter a world of beauty, natural beauty. Perhaps you will not walk out with all the information the museum provides, but you will walk out with an appreciation of our natural history, and the urge to know more. A natural history museum's job is to open people up to nature and provide them with the tools to learn about its creatures. With new permanent exhibits, and renovations, the Los Angeles Natural History Museum has never before been as ready as it is now, to amaze its visitors and inspire their thirst for knowledge in science and nature. The Natural History Museum will not only satisfy some of your thirst for knowledge but also make you more thirsty.