San Diego Museum of Art

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• Neighborhood: Balboa Park
• Hours: Tuesday-Saturday: 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. Sunday: 12 p.m. - 5 p.m. Monday: Closed

The San Diego Museum of Art is the region’s oldest, largest, and most visited art museum, providing a rich and diverse cultural experience for nearly 300,000 visitors each year. Located in the heart of beautiful Balboa Park, the Museum’s nationally renowned permanent collection includes Spanish and Italian old masters, South Asian paintings, and 19th- and 20th-century American paintings and sculptures. In addition, the Museum regularly features major exhibitions from around the world, as well as an extensive year-round schedule of supporting cultural and educational programs for children and adults. Exhibition text is always in English and Spanish. The Museum’s research library offers access to an extensive collection of art history publications.

Events:

• 11/04/11 – 2/19/12
  Mexican Modern Painting from the Andrés Blaisten Collection
• 11/15/11 – 2/19/12
  Mexican Modern Painting
• 1/01/12 – 4/20/12
  Pacific Horizons Melanesian Art from the Valerie Franklin Collection
• 1/01/12 – 3/18/12
  Walk from the Sun Photographs of Southern California by scott b. davis
• 1/01/12 – 2/19/12
  Experiments in Abstraction Art in Southern California, 1945 to 1980
• 1/01/12 – 2/19/12
  A Harmony of Line Selections from the School of Paris, Prints and Drawings, ca. 1900-1950
• 1/01/12 – 5/31/12
  Special Installation of Modern French Paintings
• 1/21/12 – 3/11/12
  Vochol Huichol Art on Wheels
• 2/09/12
  ArtStop: Suzanne Valadon
• 2/11/12
  New for You Lecture: Anton Raphael Mengs
• 2/11/12
  The Original Avatars: An Introduction to Vishnu
• 2/12/12
  Old Masters of Music and Art: Amy White and Dominic Schaner
• 2/12/12
  Sorting African Art: Who Made It & What Does it Mean?
• 2/16/12
  ArtStop: Apollo and Daphne
• 2/17/12
  Member's Preview: Echoes of the Past: The Buddhist Cave Temples of Xiangtangshan and Dyeing Elegance: Textile Art of Kuboku and Hisako Takaku
• 2/17/12
  American Opera/American Art: Reflections on Moby Dick, A New American Opera
• 2/17/12
  Friend's Reception and Lecture: Out of Asia
• 2/18/12 – 5/27/12
  Dyeing Elegance Asian Modernism and the Art of Kūboku and Hisako Takaku
• 2/18/12 – 5/27/12
  Echoes of the Past The Buddhist Cave Temples of Xiangtangshan
• 2/19/12
  Family Drop-in Day: Exploring Personal Pathways
• 2/21/12
  ArtStop: Who is Kuˉboku?
• 2/23/12
  ArtStop: Recent Acquisitions
• 2/23/12
  Dyeing Elegance - Textile Traditions
• 2/27/12
  Living Art
• 3/01/12
  ArtStop: Grant-Parker American Gifts
• 3/02/12
  First Friday Films: Dead Man
• 3/05/12
  An Introduction to the Arts of Oceania
• 3/08/12
  ArtStop: Scott B. Davis
• 3/10/12
  Educators' Art Fair: Exploring Non-Western Art
• 3/15/12
  ArtStop: Guy Pene Du Bois
• 3/16/12
  Norm Applebaum presents Sprit as an Expression of New Architecture
• 3/17/12
  Reflections on Five Centuries of Sikh Tradition
• 3/18/12
  Family Drop-In Day: Echoes of the Past
• 3/19/12
  25 Works of Art You Must See
• 3/20/12
  ArtStop: Guy Pene Du Bois
• 3/22/12
  ArtStop: Mary Cassatt
• 3/27/12
  Art of Élan presents Liánjie
• 3/29/12
  Behind the Scenes of Asian Court
• 3/29/12
  ArtStop: Janet Sobel
• 3/31/12
  Nainsukh
• 4/01/12
  Old Masters of Music and Art: Courtly Noyse
• 4/03/12
  East County Chapter Steps Out!
• 4/05/12
  ArtStop: Still Life
• 4/06/12
  First Friday Films: The Makioka Sisters
• 4/15/12
  Family Drop-in Day: Garden of Activities at Art Alive
• 4/16/12
  Great Art Museums of Europe
• 4/17/12
  ArtStop: Court Painters from the Himalayan Foothills
• 4/19/12
  ArtStop: Dyeing Elegance
• 4/20/12
  Be on the Look Out - One Millennium of Art Missing: Searching for Byzantium in the West
• 4/21/12
  The Hidden Expression of Rene Magritte
• 4/21/12
  Rediscover Temple, Palace, Mosque
• 4/25/12
  Seldom Seen: Coptic Textiles and Women in War Posters
• 4/26/12
  ArtStop: Hands of Dr. Moore
• 4/26/12
  Japanese Netsuke, Art in Miniature
• 4/28/12
  Out of Asia: A Symposium
• 5/03/12
  ArtStop: Jawlensky
• 5/07/12
  East County Chapter Steps Out! Part 2
• 5/08/12
  Art of Élan presents Americana
• 5/09/12
  Teen Art Café @ The Museum: Dyeing Elegance
• 5/10/12
  ArtStop: Sofonisba Anguissola
• 5/12/12
  Plein-Air Watercolor Painting
• 5/12/12
  Bus Tour to the Huntington Museum, Library, and Gardens
• 5/12/12
  Tasting Rasa: Emotion, Art, and Devotion in Hindu Traditions
• 5/13/12
  La Jolla Renaissance Singers
• 5/15/12
  ArtStop: Thomas Moran
• 5/17/12
  ArtStop: Chinese Cave Temple Sculpture
• 5/18/12
  Lecture: Cataloging the Collection From Reginald Poland and the Putnam Sisters to Punchmarks and Provenance
• 5/20/12
  Target Free Family Day and Festival
• 5/20/12
  Family Drop-in Day: Exploring Icon and Ornament
• 5/21/12
  Insights into Photography
• 5/24/12
  ArtStop: George Inness
• 5/31/12
  ArtStop: Oceanic Art
• 5/31/12
  Daoist Funerary Objects

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