Natural History Museum Mummies exhibit and IMAX

A mummy show and a 40-minute IMAX film are running side by side right now at the California Science Center in Exposition Park. (californiasciencecenter.org) The exhibition, “Mummies of the World,” is open through September 7, 2026, and the companion film, “Mummies 3D: Secrets of the Pharaohs,” is screening during the same run. The Science Center lists the exhibition as the final stop on its international tour. (californiasciencecenter.org) This is not a Natural History Museum program. The current mummy exhibition and IMAX pairing are at the California Science Center, at 700 Exposition Park Drive, a separate museum campus next to the Natural History Museum in South Los Angeles. (californiasciencecenter.org) (nhm.org) The show brings together more than 30 human and animal mummies from ancient Egypt, South America and Europe, plus burial objects, mummification tools and interactive displays. The Science Center says CT scans, or Computed Tomography images, help explain how researchers study the bodies without unwrapping them. (californiasciencecenter.org) Time Out’s Los Angeles listing says two Peruvian bundle mummies are making their West Coast debut in this run, alongside amulets, organ jars, an Egyptian cat mummy and other artifacts. The same listing says some specimens in the 2026 version were not shown when the exhibition first appeared in Los Angeles in 2010. (timeout.com) The film focuses more narrowly on ancient Egypt than the exhibition does. Discover Los Angeles says the 3D movie follows explorers and scientists as they examine archaeological and genetic evidence from Egyptian mummies on a seven-story IMAX screen. (discoverlosangeles.com) Prices are sold separately but bundled discounts are available. Time Out lists exhibition tickets at $26 to $28 and IMAX tickets at $14 to $15, with daily exhibition hours of 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. (timeout.com) The Science Center says the exhibition has drawn more than 2.4 million visitors worldwide since its 2010 premiere there. In Los Angeles this spring, the museum is pitching the return as a last chance to see the touring show before the artifacts go back to their lending institutions. (californiasciencecenter.org) (timeout.com) For visitors trying to plan the week, the simplest takeaway is this: the mummy artifacts are in the California Science Center galleries, and the Egypt-focused add-on is playing in that museum’s IMAX theater through early September. (californiasciencecenter.org) (discoverlosangeles.com)