City of Santa Paula’s California Oil Museum Exhibit "Prehistoric California"
Opening September 14, 2013

Opening September 14 is the newest exhibit at the California Oil Museum, titled Prehistoric California. This exhibit will enthrall audiences with fossils and history from California’s ancient days, when larger than life animals covered the land. Visitors will be able to view the skulls of some the most famous mega fauna such as the saber tooth cat, dire wolf, a prehistoric camel, horse and the formidable Harlan’s ground sloth. Other mammals and marine fossils from the Miocene and Pleistocene will also be on display. The specimens on display are borrowed from the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles, the Page Museum (La Brea Tar Pits) and Santa Barbara City College.

Opening day will be a fun family adventure with tables of prehistoric fossils on display and demonstrations offered for the junior paleontologist, including a fossil dig in our Museum courtyard.
Activities on Saturday, September 14th will start at 10am and go until 4pm. Admission is $4 adults, $3 seniors, $1 students (6-18), under 5 is free. More details on our website, www.oilmuseum.net.

This exhibit will run until February 2, 2014. Field trips and fossil workshops are offered in conjunction to the exhibit and during the school year. Contact Bonnie Walters, Museum Educator, 805-933-0076 Ext.292, bwalters@spcity.org to sign up your class for a field trip.