When the coronavirus began ripping around Los Angeles last spring, Lori Bettison-Varga, the president and director of the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, braced her team to shutter for a while. Workers had to put away, secure and turn the lights off on the museum’s 35 million artifacts when it closed because of the pandemic. Maintenance crews clean the new floor in the “Birds of the World” display, featuring hundreds of the museum’s 121,000 bird specimens. RIGHT: Maintenance crews clean the new floor in the “Birds of the World” display, featuring hundreds of the museum’s 121,000 bird specimens. Haley Cohen Gilliland is a writer in Los Angeles.

Source: Washington Post May 26, 2021 14:48 UTC