Dr. Ed Krupp, Director of the Griffith Observatory, holds a passport which was created for the 90th anniversary of the Observatory on Wednesday, May 14, 2025. The Observatory opened its doors to ...

Your editorial stated that the Griffith Observatory “hasn’t been an observatory for decades.” But it is, in fact, a public observatory, and it occupies the best piece of public observatory ...

It’s an observatory, planetarium, and exhibition space that has been free to the public since it opened in 1935, built with a bequest from industrialist and philanthropist Griffith J. Griffith.