The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County will debut a new exhibition on orcas next month at its Exposition Park location, it was announced Thursday.<\/p>\n
The exhibition, titled \u201cOrcas: Our Shared Future,\u201d will open April 26 and explore the lives of the marine mammals through scientific displays, cultural artifacts and multimedia installations, according to museum officials.<\/p>\n
The roughly 10,000-square-foot exhibit will feature about 140 artifacts and specimens, including a life-size replica of an orca family and an articulated skeleton of an adult female orca.<\/p>\n
Visitors will also encounter artwork by Indigenous artists from the Pacific Northwest Coast highlighting the cultural connections between orcas and First Nations communities, according to the museum.<\/p>\n
\u201cOrcas are among Earth\u2019s most complicated, fascinating, and misunderstood beings,\u201d Dr. Lori Bettison-Varga, president and director of the Natural History Museums of Los Angeles County, said in a statement. \u201cI hope visitors will leave `Orcas: Our Shared Future\u2019 with a deep appreciation for these powerful icons of the seas and the significant role they play in our ocean ecosystems \u2014 and our imaginations.\u201d<\/p>\n
The exhibition will also examine orca behavior, including social structures and communication, as well as issues such as captivity and the status of various populations, museum officials said.<\/p>\n
Programming tied to the exhibit is expected to include panel discussions, family activities and camps for children, along with evening events.<\/p>\n
Museum member preview days are scheduled for April 24-25. The exhibition will require a separate ticket in addition to general museum admission, with prices starting at $12 for adults and $6 for children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County will debut a new exhibition on orcas next month at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28494,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[4437,418,48,52,51,47,50,49,3906,6607,51210,33529,1045,107303],"class_list":["post-237949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-exhibit","tag-history","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-month","tag-museum","tag-natural","tag-next","tag-open","tag-orcas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237949\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}