Griffith Jenkins Griffith desired to make science more accessible to the public and he gifted $100,000 to the city of Los Angeles to build an Observatory on top of Mount Hollywood.

Los Angeles has now managed, despite odds that once looked impossibly long, to refurbish its four major public landmarks from the first half of the 20th century, with the observatory joining City ...

“We know that the city view is what a lot of people go to Griffith Observatory for -- we’re always on the Top 10 lists of Los Angeles’ most romantic places.

Lecturers who narrate the planetarium shows at Griffith Observatory and who took steps late last year to form a union, this week have been granted union recognition by the City of Los Angeles ...

Griffith Park's Mount Hollywood Summit Re-Named in Honor of Long-Time Councilman Tom LaBonge Tom LaBonge Summit sits above the Griffith Observatory, offering 360-degree views of the city the late ...

Join the free celebration of the observatory with the iconic views this Wednesday.

Griffith is best remembered for his generousdonation to the city of Los Angeles that created Griffith Park and eventually the observatory that bears his name, as wellas the Greek Theater.

The 12-inch Zeiss refracting telescope is arguably the showpiece of Griffith Observatory, housed in the easternmost dome that forms the building’s crown-like outline.

Nearly nine decades after this iconic building opened, the world remains unrevolutionized, and the smog means that the views probably aren’t as crystal-clear as they were in Griffith’s day.

See stars and vistas: Griffith Observatory and Griffith Park is ranked #1 out of 33 things to do in Los Angeles. See pictures and our review of See stars and vistas: Griffith Observatory and ...

The storytellers who introduce live audiences to the heavens at Griffith Observatory’s Samuel Oschin Planetarium theater have unanimously ratified their first collective bargaining agreement.