It is amazing to see the changes in Exposition Park. The CA ScienCenter is three stories of science fun and totally free. The IMAX theater plays great kid-friendly movies all day. If you have kids that like airplanes or space, be sure to check out the Aerospace Museum. The LA Natural History Museum is an icon. The entrance free is pretty inexpensive and they've added a great children's discovery area downstairs that our kids loved.
This has been a civic, cultural, and recreation area since the turn of the twentieth century. Here you’ll find the Coliseum, S
ports Arena, Natural History Museum, the
California Science Center, and the California African American Museum, as well as a seven-acre Rose Garden containing 16,000-plus specimens of 190-plus varieties.
Free and open daily until sunset. Adjacent to the park is the world-famous urban campus of the University of Southern California (USC; www.usc.edu). Across the
Harbor Freeway is the retail and entertainment complex Mercado La Paloma (www.mercadolapaloma.com).