Services: AV | Architect: CO Architects | Photography: Tom Bonner Photography
Services: AV | Architect: CO Architects | Photography: Tom Bonner Photography
The Otis Booth pavilion is a three-story, glass feature entry point for the museum and its new north campus. The project was funded by a $13 million gift from The Otis Booth Foundation and was completed in 2013, in time for celebration of the museum’s 100th anniversary. Since originally opening in 1913, the mandate of the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County has been to preserve, protect and research natural and culturally historic artifacts, and to curate immersive exhibitions that inspire in its visitors “wonder, discovery and responsibility for our natural and cultural worlds.” With the addition of The Otis Booth Pavilion, part of a $135 million, decade-long renovation, the museum has created a space that will allow them to do so more effectively than ever before.