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}} The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County (NHM) is the largest natural and historical museum in the western United States,〔http://www.lacounty.gov/wps/portal/!ut/p/b0/04_Sj9CPykssy0xPLMnMz0vMAfGjzOItDCDAyMInxNjAyCfQ0i80wNHAPcBAvyDbUREAALalgw!!/〕 and its collections include nearly 35 million specimens and artifacts and cover 4.5 billion years of history. It opened in 1913. In 2003, the museum began a campaign to transform its exhibits and visitor experience. The museum reopened its seismically retrofitted renovated 1913 rotunda, along with the new ''Age of Mammals'' exhibition. in 2010. Its Dinosaur Hall opened in July 2011. A new Los Angeles history exhibition, ''Becoming Los Angeles,'' opened in 2013. The outdoor Nature Gardens and Nature Lab, which explore L.A. wildlife, also opened in 2013. ==History== NHM opened in Exposition Park, Los Angeles, California, United States in 1913 as the Museum of History, Science, and Art. The moving force behind it was a museum association founded in 1910. Its distinctive main building, with fitted marble walls and domed and colonnaded rotunda, is on the National Register of Historic Places. Additional wings opened in 1925, 1930, 1960, and 1976. The museum was divided in 1961 into the Los Angeles County Museum of History and Science and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). LACMA moved to new quarters on Wilshire Boulevard in 1965, and the Museum of History and Science was renamed the Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History. Eventually, the museum renamed itself again, becoming the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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