This unusual exhibition reveals the design and landscaping by the Linesch & Reynolds firm of four oil-drilling platforms built between 1965 and 1968 in the outer harbor of Long Beach, Calif. Landscape architect Joseph Linesch (1924-1996) is the focus of the exhibit, with drawings and period photographs on display.

In the 1960s, the Texaco, Humble, Union, Mobil and Shell (THUMS) oil consortium built drilling platforms off the coast of Long Beach and commissioned Linesch & Reynolds to landscape the platforms. The designs included waterfalls, palms and shrubs set against a background of colored concrete walls?EUR??,,????'??+all lit at night. The oil rig landscapes earned Linesch commissions to design landscapes for several Southern California Edison substations, which are also part of the exhibition.

On September 16, the museum scheduled tours to White Island, one of the landscaped oil platforms. The tour quickly sold out.