{"id":442239,"date":"2026-08-24T19:32:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T19:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/442239\/"},"modified":"2026-08-24T19:32:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T19:32:09","slug":"natural-history-museum-to-launch-nighttales-winter-lights-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/442239\/","title":{"rendered":"Natural History Museum to Launch NightTales Winter Lights Experience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County announced Monday it will launch a winter lights experience in November featuring illuminated installations, projections and artwork throughout the museum and its gardens.<\/p>\n<p>The inaugural \u201cNightTales\u201d will be held on select nights from Nov. 12 through Jan. 10, with timed admission from 5:30 to 10 p.m. at the museum in Exposition Park, according to the museum.<\/p>\n<p>The indoor-outdoor event will feature illuminated installations and cinematic projections throughout the museum\u2019s halls and gardens, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>The experience will also feature work by Los Angeles-based artist Maggie West, whose photography uses color, light and scale to create images of natural subjects.<\/p>\n<p>For \u201cNightTales,\u201d West\u2019s time-lapse photography will be used to transform specimens from the museum\u2019s collection into illuminated works of art, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNightTales\u201d will be offered Nov. 12-15, 20, 22-25 and 27-29; Dec. 4-6, 11-13, 18-23 and 26-31; and Jan. 2-10.<\/p>\n<p>General admission will cost $30 for adults and $25 for children, while museum members will pay $20.<\/p>\n<p>Tickets will go on sale to museum members Thursday and to the general public Sept. 1.<\/p>\n<p>The museum recently opened NHM Commons, a community-focused addition intended to connect natural history with science, nature and culture.<\/p>\n<p>The Natural History Museum is at 900 Exposition Blvd. in Exposition Park.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County announced Monday it will launch a winter lights experience in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28494,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[9576,418,48,52,51,18786,28025,47,50,49,6607,51210,175208,3162],"class_list":["post-442239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-experience","tag-history","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-launch","tag-lights","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-museum","tag-natural","tag-nighttales","tag-winter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442239","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=442239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442239\/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=442239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=442239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=442239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}