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La Brea Tar Pits and Museum vs Museum of Tolerance

Both La Brea Tar Pits and Museum and Museum of Tolerance are highly recommended by professional reviewers. Overall, Museum of Tolerance is preferred by most reviewers compared to La Brea Tar Pits and Museum. Museum of Tolerance is ranked #7 in Los Angeles with recommendations from 7 reviewers including Fodor's, Michelin Guide and Time Out.

La Brea Tar Pits and Museum
La Brea Tar Pits and Museum
8 / 10
5801 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90036
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Fodor's Fodor's
"A bas-relief around four sides depicts life in the Pleistocene era, and the museum has more than 3 million Ice Age fossils."
Lonely Planet Lonely Planet
Top Choice
"You’ll likely have a ball at the unique Page Museum, an archaeological trove of skulls and bones unearthed at La Brea Tar Pits, one of the world’s most fecund and famous fossil sites." Full review
Lonely Planet Lonely Planet
"Between 10,000 and 40,000 years ago, tarlike bubbling crude oil trapped saber-toothed cats, mammoths and other extinct ice-age critters." Full review
Time Out Time Out
"Back in 1875, a group of amateur paleontologists discovered animal remains in the pits at Rancho La Brea, which bubbled with asphalt from a petroleum lake under what is now Hancock Park." Full review
Michelin Guide Michelin Guide
1 Star
"Hancock Park, the public park embracing the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Page Museum, is the setting for the world's largest and most diverse cache of Ice Age plant and animal..." Full review
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Museum of Tolerance
Museum of Tolerance
8 / 10
Simon Wiesenthal Plaza, 9786 West Pico Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90035
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Fodor's Fodor's
"Using interactive technology, this important museum (part of the Simon Wiesenthal Center) challenges visitors to confront bigotry and racism." Full review
Lonely Planet Lonely Planet
Top Choice
"Run by the Simon Wiesenthal Center, this museum uses interactive technology to make visitors confront racism and bigotry, with particular focus given to the Holocaust." Full review
Time Out Time Out
"The Museum of Tolerance was seen as a daring enterprise: a museum devoted to an abstract concept rather than a specific type of artifact." Full review
Not For Tourists Not For Tourists
"A humbling experience that is worth a visit."
Michelin Guide Michelin Guide
2 Stars
"Dedicated in 1993, this museum of ideas has two principal goals: raising awareness of racism and prejudice in American life, and exploring atrocities against humanity throughout history." Full review
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