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San Diego's museums reflect the incredible variety and interests of the region. San Diego County is proud to showcase over 90 museums, representing a wide range of collections from fine arts to transportation, from classics to contemporary and from science to natural history. Over 25 facilities are represented by the San Diego Museum Council and 15 museums are located within Balboa Park, often referred to as "the Smithsonian of the West."    



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    Through 02/09/2010
    Montane Diversity and the Impact of Climate Change
    San Diego Natural History Museum
    Location: Balboa Park
    Price: $10-$12
    Description: San Diego Natural History Museum presents the lecture: Montane Diversity and the Impact of Climate Change Learn about the evolutionary history of unique montane diversity in California and the tropical rainforests of Australia, and explore the evidence that climate change over the past century already has affected species ranges.
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    Through 02/09/2010
    Steve Schick – Solo performance of “Mathematics of Resonant Bodies” by John Luther Adams
    San Diego Museum of Art
    Location: Balboa Park
    Description: John Luther Adams' Alaskan landscape is brought to sound in this percussion solo
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    Through 02/18/2010
    ArtStop: Oceanic Art
    San Diego Museum of Art
    Location: Balboa Park
    Price: Free after Museum admission
    Description: A 15-minute tour of one to three works of art at The San Diego Museum of Art.
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    Through 02/24/2010
    Art Explorations at The San Diego Museum of Art
    San Diego Museum of Art
    Location: Balboa Park
    Price: Free after Museum admission
    Description: Explore Line Art at The San Diego Museum of Art
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    Through 02/27/2010
    Circle of Complication: Kinetic sculpture and drawings by Dave Ghilarducci
    San Diego Museum of Art
    Location: Balboa Park
    Description: Circle of Complication is a mechanized sculpture designed to make drawings reminiscent of those made by a child using a Spirograph toy.
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    Through 02/28/2010
    San Diego Museum Month: Half-Off Admission
    San Diego Museum Council
    Location: Mission Valley
    Price: Admission prices vary.
    Description: Enjoy San Diego's exquisite museums at half-price during this museum month.
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    Through 02/28/2010
    Darwin: Evolution|Revolution (San Diego Natural History Museum)
    San Diego Natural History Museum
    Location: Balboa Park
    Price: $10-$16 (museum members are free)
    Description: Explore the life and work of Charles Darwin, the biologist whose revolutionary theories on natural selection and evolution changed the face of science forever. This year marks the 200th anniversary of Darwin’s birth and the 150th anniversary of the publishing of On the Origin of Species.
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    Through 02/28/2010
    Tara Donovan
    Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, Downtown
    Location: Downtown
    Price: Free to $10
    Description: MacArthur genius honoree Tara Donovan is one of the most innovative and important young artists of our time. MCASD is the only West Coast venue for the first museum retrospective of this provocative artist, which showcases the artist’s sculptures and installations that transform everyday materials—such as drinking straws and plastic cups—to dazzling effect.
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    Through 03/19/2010
    Discoveries in Dystopia: Greg Brotherton
    Oceanside Museum of Art
    Price: $8, $5 for seniors, free for students and military
    Description: Greg Brotherton displays his work in the Parker Gallery at Oceanside Museum of Art.
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    Through 03/26/2010
    Wild Ocean, 3D
    San Diego Natural History Museum
    Location: Balboa Park
    Price: $10 - $16
    Description: San Diego Natural History Museum 3D theater. Wild Ocean, 3D is in an uplifting, giant screen cinema experience capturing one of nature's greatest migration spectacles.
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The San Diego Natural History Museum will present an enlightening new exhibition, Darwin: Evolution|Revolution, November 7, 2009 – February 28, 2010. The exhibit will explore the life and work of Charles Darwin, whose evolutionary theories on natural selection and evolution changed the face of science.  Darwin’s personal manuscripts, notebooks and artworks will be on display, as well as fossils, taxidermy mounts and living specimens like Galapagos turtles, green iguanas and intricate orchids that Darwin used when developing his revolutionary theories.







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