The La Brea Tar Pits and Page Museum are getting a facelift designed by a New York-based architecture firm.

The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County announced Weiss/Manfredi’s winning makeover plan. It’s the first large-scale update for the Mid-Wilshire property since the Page Museum’s opening in 1977.

The redesign includes a bridge across the lake pit, site walls, a new garden and an expansion of the Page Museum.

Weiss/Manfredi principals Marion Weiss and Michael Manfredi said in a statement that the “loops and lenses” concept would create “new connections between the museum and the park, between science and culture, and envisions the entire site as an unfolding place of discovery.”

Lori Bettison-Varga, president and director of the Natural History Museum, said in a statement that the changes would create “a more integrated experience of the museum and the landscape in Hancock Park while increasing community access, preserving the site’s iconic features and developing a more sustainable infrastructure for the next 50 years.”

Weiss/Manfredi beat out finalists Dorte Mandrup from Copenhagen and Diller Scofidio and Renfro of New York.

The Weiss/Manfredi design was chosen by the Natural History Museum and a jury that included Milton Curry, dean of USC’s School of Architecture; Kirk Johnson, director of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History; and Christopher Hawthorne, the city’s chief design officer.

The Tar Pits isn’t the only museum getting a makeover.

Next door, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art will undergo a $600 million redesign by Swiss architect Peter Zumthor.

Also nearby, the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures is set to open in 2020 and will include a dome-shaped theater.

In Exposition Park, construction is underway on the $1 billion Lucas Museum of Narrative Art.