UCLA Meteorite Gallery

The largest university meteorite collection on the American west coast, with a free public gallery.

Key facts

Where

Los Angeles, United States

Kind

University collection

Visiting

Public gallery or display at a university

The University of California, Los Angeles has collected meteorites since the 1930s, and its collection of a few thousand specimens is the largest at any university in the western United States. It supports research by the university's planetary scientists, who have studied everything from the earliest solids of the Solar System to Martian meteorites.

The UCLA Meteorite Gallery, in the geology building on the campus, displays more than a hundred meteorites from all the main groups and explains how they are studied. It is free to visit and is often used by school groups.

Highlights

• Teaching gallery more than a hundred meteorites on show

Opening times, what is on display and access to research collections change over time, so check with the institution before you visit.