It’s Spring! We can celebrate the new season and the new month at several events this weekend, among them the Butterfly Pavilion at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County and more!
Let me suggest you look at the broadcast and then scroll down this page for more information I did not have time to tell you during the broadcast.
Enjoy! Please stay safe!
Gayle
-000-
Butterfly Pavilion
Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
900 Exposition Boulevard
Los Angeles
213 763 3466
The Butterfly Pavilion takes flight at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County (NHM) for the spring and summer months. Visitors can walk among hundreds of butterflies in NHM’s outdoor, open-air netted enclosure. The seasonal experience also features colorful native plants and plenty of natural light to help guests see these creatures flutter and fly.
Visitors can expect to see the stages of the butterfly lifecycle, from eggs to caterpillars and chrysalises, for up to 30 different species, including California natives like the Mourning Cloak (Nymphalis antiopa) and Painted Lady (Vanessa cardui). Exotic butterflies like the Malachite (Siproeta stelenes) and Blue Morpho (Morpho peleides) are also fluttering in the pavilion space.
Museum educators are stationed inside the Butterfly Pavilion to answer visitors’ questions, share what makes these winged creatures so special, and provide information about how we can help protect and promote the populations of endangered species of butterflies.
Butterfly Pavilion
Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
Now through August 24, 2025
10 AM-5 PM (last group admitted at 4:30 PM)
Timed tickets are for 30-minute sessions and are free for members, $10 for non-members with a general admission ticket.
You can find visitor information and the list of nurseries she mentioned that carry Southern California native plants that butterflies as well as bees love on the website: nhm.org/butterflies
2025 Native Plant Garden Tour
Theodore Payne Foundation for Wild Flowers & Native Plants
Saturday, April 5th, 10am-5pm: 18 Gardens
Sunday, April 6th, 10am-5pm: 17 Gardens
nativeplantgardentour.org
By the way, the Theodore Payne Foundation for Wild Flowers and Native Plants is having its annual Native Plant Garden Tour this weekend. Today, get some native plant gardening ideas by touring homes on the list now until 5pm featuring 18 gardens and then, tomorrow, April 6thm from 10am to 5pm featuring 17 gardens. All of the gardens have great information and ideas about planting and gardening that attracts butterflies and more important pollinators vital to the environment. Ticket information is on the website: nativeplantgardentour.org
The American Motorcycle
Pioneering Machines from the Bunch Family Collection
Petersen Automotive Museum
6060 Wilshire Boulevard
Los Angeles
petersen.org
More than 25 rare motorcycles from the early 1900s are on display at the Petersen Automotive Museum. The new exhibit, “The American Motorcycle: Pioneering Machines from the Bunch Family Collection. This is a special opportunity to see one of the most extensive and internationally renowned collections in the world. The petersen.org website contains visitor and ticket information.
People’s Champ: The Impact of Ken Block
Petersen Automotive Museum
6060 Wilshire Boulevard
Los Angeles
petersen.org
Also new at the Petersen Automotive Museum, the People’s Champ: The Impact of Ken Block. The honors the professional rally driver with the Hoonigan Racing Division, as well as a co-founder of DC Shoes. It salutes his gymkhana videos, which feature precision driving stunts and challenges. Block has also competed in the World Rally Championship and the X Games. This is the only venue where the public can see this collection of historic Ken Block vehicles all in one place now until October.
Open Now Thru Mother’s Day
The Flower Fields @ Carlsbad Ranch
5704 Paseo del Norte
Carlsbad
1 855 235 2867
theflowerfields.com
Photographers of all ages, using all kinds of photographic equipment are consuming the colors of this season’s Flower Fields at Carlsbad Ranch.
There are fifty acres of Giant Tecolote Ranunculus flowers blooming for approximately six to eight weeks, now through Mother’s Day. The Southern California attraction’s 2025 theme of “Where Color Takes Flight” is inspired by this year’s unique outdoor installation featuring over three dozen larger-than-life sculptures of birds and insects, expertly crafted from Dalle de Verre glass and steel to embody the wonder of flight. Schedule your visit on theflowerfields.com website.
Now Until September 2025
Dead Sea Scrolls
Reagan Presidential Library & Museum
reaganfoundation.org
The Ronald Reagan Presidential Library has installed a new group of Dead Sea Scrolls, including the famed 4Q57 Isaiah Scroll, a fragment of the Isaiah Scroll from the Dead Sea Scrolls. The 4Q57 Isaiah Scroll is said to provide insight into how the text was written and interpreted before the “common era,” the period from the birth of Jesus Christ.
The Dead Sea Scrolls are considered one of the greatest discoveries of the modern era. The eight scrolls on display now will be swapped out in three months for another group of scrolls. According to Dr. Joe Uziel, the head of the Dead Sea Scrolls Unit at the Israel Antiquities Authority (https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/scholar/joe-uziel/) the Scrolls have been exhibited in over thirty venues worldwide, from the Americas to Japan and from Europe to Australia. Each venue is required to abide by the most stringent protocols, e.g., maintaining climate-controlled showcases and monitoring light exposure. The Scrolls are exhibited on a rotational basis; any Scroll on display for a period of three months must “rest” for at least a year before traveling again.
The exhibit at the Reagan Library is available until September 2, 2025. (reaganfoundation.org)
For visitor and ticket information, check the reaganfoundation.org website.
Art Will S8t You Free by Israeli American artist Tomer Peretz
Museum of Tolerance
9786 West Pico Boulevard
Los Angeles
310 772 2505
museumoftolerance.com
“Art Will S8t You Free” is new at the Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles. It’s created by Israeli American artist Tomer Peretz and The 8 Project in collaboration with the Museum of Tolerance and Genesis Collective. The exhibit is about how people traumatized by the October 7th, 2023, terrorist attack on the Nova Music Festival are transforming their anguish in art.
Mr. Peretz says the work scene here is collaboration, painting and creating, the artist, the soldiers and the survivors of that massacre.
See what has been created at “Art Will Set You Free” new at the Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles.
themuseumoftolerance.com website contains visitor information.
